Metadata Quote by Bruce Schneier

Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not…

— Rand Paul

“For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber caliphate, Muslim brotherhood, Antifa etc), metadata is "THE" silent weapon in…

— James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're…

— Mikko Hypponen

Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and…

— Laura Poitras

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

— Ari Melber

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

— Dana Bash

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

“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

— Ken Liu

No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

— Bruce Sterling

When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster.…

— Edward Snowden

Representation is a sort of surveillance.

— Martine Syms