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title: "3 Surveillance Government Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-knight/closed-circuit-came-out-of-a-general-anxiety-about-surveillance/)

[Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-knight/)

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> [Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikko-hypponen/governmental-surveillance-is-not-about-the-government-collecting-the/)

[Mikko Hypponen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikko-hypponen/)

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> [We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-page/we-can-t-have-democracy-if-we-re-having-to-protect-you-and-our-users/)

[Larry Page](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-page/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/larry-page-4715_about_we-can-t-have-democracy-if-we-re-having_3115160.png)

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