The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance.” — sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model? — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Surveillance cheerleaders essentially offer only one argument in defense of mass surveillance: it is only carried out to stop terrorism and keep… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“this model of control has the great advantage of simultaneously creating the illusion of freedom. The compulsion to obedience exists in the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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