Ifs Quote by Edward Snowden

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

— Edward Snowden

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go…

— Larry Craig

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

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

— Michel Foucault

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 think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

— Trevor Paglen

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in…

— Yochai Benkler

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

— Stephen Colbert

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

— Alex Stamos

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

— Edward Snowden

I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.

— Bob Beckel