“mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. — Barry Eisler 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
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty.” — Erin Kellison Copy Share Image
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“I have video surveillance at my home because my risk assessment regarding my research indicates I am at high risk of abduction.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“There may not be time.’ Strax said, ‘to conduct a full surveillance regime according to prescribed regulations in order to formulate a… — Justin Richards Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge 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
When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie) “That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss… — Victor C. Ferkiss 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
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free… — Elizabeth Holtzman 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
Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“Government surveillance is a violation of our intrinsic right to privacy, a breach that extends beyond legal boundaries into the emotional terrain… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it seemed a magnanimous gesture to… — James Bamford Copy Share Image
“We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of… — Church Committee Copy Share Image
“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom. — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image