Asks Quote by Phil Zimmermann

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential…

— Al Gore

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go…

— Michael Bloomberg

Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a…

— Oliver DeMille

I believe deeply that the first duty of government is providing for the personal security of its citizens. Therefore I would naturally place the…

— William Barr

We must demilitarize the police. To do this, we must shift the paradigm of public safety, at home and abroad.

— Jake Auchincloss

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want…

— Don Winslow

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

— Bruce Schneier

In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that…

— Louis J. Freeh

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not…

— Evgeny Morozov

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the…

— Adam Cohen

Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing capabilities have…

— Sylvia Lim

Technology should be used for better purposes, for people's overall welfare and development of state and country, instead of misusing it to win elections.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu