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title: "4 Surveillance Apparatus Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-greenwald/history-shows-that-the-mere-existence-of-a-mass-surveillance/)

[Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-greenwald/)

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> [No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-greenwald/no-matter-the-specific-techniques-involved-historically-mass-2/)

[Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-greenwald/)

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> [I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-nolan/i-d-grown-up-in-the-u-k-where-the-surveillance-apparatus-went-into/)

[Jonathan Nolan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-nolan/)

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> [If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-colbert/if-you-re-doing-nothing-wrong-you-have-nothing-to-hide-from-the-giant/)

[Stephen Colbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-colbert/)

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