Quote by Glenn Greenwald

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

— Ari Melber

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

Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of…

— Sarah Jeong

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent.…

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

“Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials to do…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake of this…

— Glenn Greenwald

“this model of control has the great advantage of simultaneously creating the illusion of freedom. The compulsion to obedience exists in the individual’s mind.…

— 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

“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to…

— Glenn Greenwald

The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want to keep…

— Noam Chomsky

“Most recently, in order to quell dissent, the progressives are implementing a chilling policy of national surveillance and selective prosecution—using the power of the…

— Dinesh D'Souza