Bad Quote by Trevor Paglen

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's…

— Keir Starmer

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

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

— Michel Foucault

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

— Nat Hentoff

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

— Edward Snowden

“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

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

— Alex Stamos

“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

Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

— Edward Snowden

We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of…

— Edward Snowden

Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy…

— Victor C. Ferkiss

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

— Noam Chomsky