Databases Quote by Julian Assange

Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists,…

— Edward Snowden

Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

— Aaron Swartz

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

— Gijs de Vries

The key to security is public information.

— Margaret Chase Smith

We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a…

— Daphne Oz

If you want to amplify the data that you have, you need media, you need lawyers, you need the judiciary. Especially when governments try…

— Ory Okolloh

It isn't citizens, or Congress, who decide how our information network regulates itself. We don't get to decide how information companies collect data, and…

— Anne Applebaum

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place.…

— John Perry Barlow

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data…

— Sara Harrison

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for…

— Anonymous

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one…

— Glenn Greenwald