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World Quotes by Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden warns that a world without privacy leaves no room for imagination or learning. He says protecting messages while they travel is far easier than trying to force every country to obey the same rules. He also tells us that big U.S. companies should earn trust before we rely on them, and that exposing hidden surveillance can spark a fight for justice.

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You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

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We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world.

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You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

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They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

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There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure…

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Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

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They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.

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The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

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I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I…

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As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability…

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I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I…

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I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these…

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Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

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I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression…

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I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where…

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I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was…

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By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think…

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If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement…

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By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the…

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I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for…

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There have been so many individuals who have really put a lot on the line. That they've sacrificed so much to try…

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One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was…

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The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.…

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Imagine, if you will, you're sitting at my desk in Hawaii. You have access to the entire world, as far as you…

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The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be…

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I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

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I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

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We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

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When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one…

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If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

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I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a…

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I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world…

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It's much easier, I think, to protect communications while they're in transit at least, than it is to enforce legislation in every…

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I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are…

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We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country…

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We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled…

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Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the…

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We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way…

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You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country.…

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You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you,…

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There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold…

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I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree…