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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the…

— Dana Schutz

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

— Trevor Paglen

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But…

— Trevor Paglen

Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.

— Trevor Paglen

What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?

— Trevor Paglen

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

— Trevor Paglen

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

— Trevor Paglen

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast…

— Trevor Paglen

“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

“The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who “have done something wrong” should provide little comfort, since a state…

— Glenn Greenwald

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman