Programming Quote by Glenn Greenwald

“For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber caliphate, Muslim brotherhood, Antifa etc), metadata is "THE" silent weapon in…

— James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“there is no check or limit on the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government’s interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so…

— Glenn Greenwald

“the Justice Department failed to “cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into…

— Angela Merkel

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

— Bruce Schneier

ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less…

— Marco Rubio

Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored,

— Yoweri Museveni

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access…

— Anonymous

“Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama’s presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there…

— Alberto Gonzales

When the FOIA law was first being discussed, every federal agency opposed it.

— Tom Fitton