Surveillance Quotes

128 Surveillance quotes by 97 unique authors

Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as… — Glenn Greenwald
Surveillance breeds conformity. — Glenn Greenwald
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world. — Jeffrey Toobin
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of… — Mikko Hypponen
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and… — Mikko Hypponen
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. — Mikko Hypponen
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the… — Yochai Benkler
When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which… — Tom Stoppard
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to… — Tom Stoppard
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national… — Ban Ki-moon
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements. — Rebecca MacKinnon
NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally. — Barton Gellman
The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate. — Barton Gellman
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications… — Barton Gellman
U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and… — Barton Gellman
I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance. — Ivica Dacic
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights. — David Blunkett
The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on… — Michael Hastings
I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and… — Ramon Rodriguez
There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance. — Julius Rosenberg
I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on… — Gloria Naylor
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget,… — Bill Viola
What a jolly thing military surveillance is! — Belle Boyd
These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered… — Joe Henderson

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