Creating Quote by Edward Snowden

Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence…

— Ron Wyden

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

“For the third type of coping strategy, at the societal level, we need to ask how non-state actors (such as communities and nonprofit organizations)…

— Eric Schmidt

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast…

— Trevor Paglen

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

Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy…

— Victor C. Ferkiss

“We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.…

— Church Committee

“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is…

— Ron Wyden

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

— Trevor Paglen

“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

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

— Barton Gellman