Nsa Quote by Ziad K. Abdelnour

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

— Edward Snowden

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we…

— Edward Snowden

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful…

— Edward Snowden

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a…

— Edward Snowden

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their…

— Edward Snowden

Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral…

— Edward Snowden

There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the…

— Edward Snowden

“citizens, had been targeted as well. Still, the sheer scale of diplomatic surveillance the NSA has practiced is unusual and noteworthy. In addition to…

— Glenn Greenwald

“much of the data collection conducted by the NSA has manifestly nothing to do with terrorism or national security. Intercepting the communications of the…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

— Edward Snowden

“mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.”

— Glenn Greenwald