Communication Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do…

— John Ashcroft

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

— Kevin Mitnick

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the [Communications Decency Act], interrupt that conversation.

— Stewart Dalzell

I don't believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens' cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot…

— Kevin de Leon

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

— Barry Eisler

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without…

— Michael Copps

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to…

— Raymond Kelly

We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most…

— Stewart Dalzell

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own…

— Spencer Abraham

A wiretap allows government agents to collect, listen to, read, rifle through and store emails, snail mail, phone calls, text messages, photographs, bank records…

— Sharyl Attkisson

Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When I was…

— Edward Snowden