Airplane Quote by 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

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

Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless of whether…

— Henry Giroux

Spying on our citizens? That's just wrong.

— Matt Rosendale

The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet…

— Kevin Mitnick

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic…

— Al Franken

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature…

— Eric Schmidt

I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

— Al Franken

Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to…

— Edward Snowden

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…

— Mikko Hypponen

“A prime justification for surveillance—that it’s for the benefit of the population—relies on projecting a view of the world that divides citizens into categories…

— Glenn Greenwald

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