Bigs Quote by Astra Taylor

It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the…

— Edward Snowden

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning…

— Laura Poitras

Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate,…

— Edward Snowden

Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.

— Steven Knight

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance…

— Edward Snowden

Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral…

— Edward Snowden

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the…

— Jeffery Deaver

Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.

— Taavet Hinrikus

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

— Pierre Omidyar

Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists,…

— Edward Snowden

A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations…

— Edward Snowden

The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual…

— Ron Wyden