The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance.… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power. — Neal Katyal 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
I think we have to reflect on a treaty change that would permit more than surveillance, with recommendations and appropriate sanctions. When… — Jean-Claude Trichet 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
We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack]… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
If you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist - and independent - legal advice… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their… — John Kani 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
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
What worries me about modern society is how inhibited it is. I'd like to see more eccentrics and more freedom, less surveillance… — David Essex Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
