The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general. — 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
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
[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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities. — Edward Snowden Copy Share
It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every country in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree… — Edward Snowden Copy Share
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