Activity Quote by 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

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we…

— Edward Snowden

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful…

— Edward Snowden

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

“It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Snowden conducted his activities within the NSA in order to be as damaging as possible. Among…

— Edward Lucas

“I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We have to recognise that rights are being violated. The United Nations actually filed a report that found that that was the case, that…

— Edward Snowden

If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement mass surveillance…

— 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

When we have some horrible terrorist attacks happen in some country we see in the recording that follows, that the intelligence community already knew…

— Edward Snowden

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of…

— Edward Snowden

I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

— Edward Snowden

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the…

— Edward Snowden

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

— Edward Snowden

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

— Edward Snowden