America Quote by James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

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

“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

“concluded that the metadata program “was not essential to preventing attacks and could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional [court]…

— Glenn Greenwald

Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not…

— Rand Paul

“This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information.…

— David Foster Wallace

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

— Bruce Schneier

For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

— David Weinberger

“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

“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its…

— Glenn Greenwald

“watched in mounting frustration, as the perversely named Patriot Acts (One and Two) had become law.  Then came the Total Information Awareness program, which…

— Matthew Bracken

“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its…

— Glenn Greenwald