Available Quote by Al Gore

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast…

— Trevor Paglen

“The new surveillance is spearheaded by burgeoning, ever-more-sophisticated electronic means that include-among a staggering array of devices-potent lasers, parabolic microphones and other "bugs" with…

— Richard Maxwell Brown

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern…

— Jeffrey Toobin

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to…

— Glenn Greenwald

Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a…

— Oliver DeMille

Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of…

— Sarah Jeong

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

— Michel Foucault

When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand…

— Phil Zimmermann

There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there…

— Barack Obama

With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.

— William Barr