I spent seven years of my life in the immediate aftermath of September 11th doing this work, working with the Patriot Act,… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Your ideas are bound to forces of which you have no control due to the fact that you've voluntarily submitted your freedom… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance. — William Barr Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications,… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
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
“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
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in… — 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
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of… — Al Gore 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 idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I find it very concerning that a utility company that has an established history of harassing me has my family under surveillance… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers… — Edward Snowden 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
If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
What we need to do, is restore those tools that have been taken away by the president [Barack Obama] and others, restore… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we… — John McCain Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in… — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
“A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. If from infancy you treat children as… — P D James Copy Share Image
As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
![“I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c7/edward-snowden-555_denied_i-was-hoping-to-catch-vladimir-putin-in_397243.jpg)
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