Data Quote by Trevor Paglen

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

— Al Gore

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind…

— Mikko Hypponen

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern…

— Jeffrey Toobin

No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster.…

— Edward Snowden

In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National…

— Heather Brooke

Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and…

— Laura Poitras

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by…

— Evgeny Morozov

“A prime justification for surveillance—that it’s for the benefit of the population—relies on projecting a view of the world that divides citizens into categories…

— Glenn Greenwald

“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

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

— Dana Bash