About Quote by Tom A. Watson

Snowden has presented us with choices on how we want to move forward into the future. We're at a crossroads and we still don't…

— Laura Poitras

It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the…

— 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

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The cliché that “everything leaks; it all comes out in the New York Times eventually” is emphatically not true, above all for sensitive compartmented…

— Daniel Ellsberg

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature…

— Eric Schmidt

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

— Edward Snowden

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

— Whitfield Diffie

“Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to every historical…

— Glenn Greenwald

This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of…

— William Safire