Surveillance Quotes

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that ...

A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who empl...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "w...

Look, cell phone geolocation data shows very few clustering anomalies for this hour and climate. And...

So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not...

Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the...

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The...

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplom...

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not...

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under obser...

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no differ...

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not ...

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authori...

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it...

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is c...

Authorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal l...

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance autho...

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our ...