Become Quote by Zeynep Tufekci

It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of…

— Matt Taibbi

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight,

— Mike Lofgren

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted…

— Glenn Greenwald

We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to…

— Rebecca Solnit

“when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency”

— Luc Zandvliet

“But the importance of privacy is evident in the fact that even those who devalue it, who have declared it dead or dispensable, do…

— Glenn Greenwald

One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship…

— Dick Cheney

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one…

— Glenn Greenwald

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

— Donald Rumsfeld

As the law catches up and the battle between corporate profits and social good plays out, we need to be careful not to be…

— Hannah Fry

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

— Daniel Schorr