Bullets Quote by Michael Leiter

“The usefulness of the bulk collection program has been greatly exaggerated. We have yet to see any proof that it provides real, unique value…

— Glenn Greenwald

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is…

— Mike Lee

If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause'…

— Rand Paul

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

— Barton Gellman

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

— Ralph Nader

We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.

— Noam Bardin

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of…

— Edward Snowden

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

— Peter Diamandis

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the…

— Anonymous

Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.

— Sebastian Thrun

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of…

— Ted Cruz

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

— Glenn Greenwald