About Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic…

— Al Franken

“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in check by…

— Glenn Greenwald

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

— Bruce Schneier

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

— Glenn Greenwald

What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works…

— Edward Snowden

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're…

— Mikko Hypponen

“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

The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual…

— Ron Wyden

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from…

— Anonymous

The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret…

— Edward Snowden

“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.”

— Ken Liu