Abiding Quote by Ron Wyden

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's…

— Edward Snowden

“Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal lives of every law-abiding American. Allowing that to continue is…

— Ron Wyden

“Government surveillance is a blatant violation of our fundamental right to privacy, an intrusion into the sacred space where personal thoughts and actions unfold.…

— James William Steven Parker

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

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying…

— Daniel Ellsberg

It doesn't thrill me to bits that the state has to use the tools of electronic surveillance to keep us safe, but it seems…

— John Lanchester

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go…

— Larry Craig

“Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials to do…

— Glenn Greenwald

Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering…

— Mikko Hypponen

Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to…

— Edward Snowden

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only…

— Edward Snowden