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
The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but… — Benjamin Wittes 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
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most… — Zbigniew Brzezinski 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
The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who… — Howard Rheingold 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
Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it… — Trevor Paglen 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
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
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We need the best and the brightest thinkers, strategists, coders, surveillance experts, tech geeks, and disruptors to utilize all of the tools… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness'… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card,… — Alan Dershowitz 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
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch 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
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“The whole planet would become one big interconnected web of cameras. It was all too much to fathom, this writhing, seething mass… — Cliff Jones Jr Copy Share Image
The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
There is a lot of envy, there is a lot of flak that we as children of the industry get for what… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
We can all relate at some level to being fascinated by looking at ourselves. You see it every time little kids walk… — Mark Rober Copy Share Image
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal… — Konstantin Rokossovsky Copy Share Image
Executive branch rules require sensitive classified information to be discussed in specialized facilities that are designed to guard against the possibility that… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“...the age of surveillance is only a symptom of the new hyper-narcissism that has infected our collective reality tunnels. We invite the… — Moxie Mezcal Copy Share Image
All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no… — William O. Douglas 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
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it… — Steve King Copy Share Image