Laura Poitras famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.
-- Laura Poitras

#Thinking #Capacity #Go Back In Time
People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.
-- Laura Poitras

#Talking #People #Information
It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.
-- Laura Poitras

#Everyday #Whistleblowers #Willing
I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.
-- Laura Poitras

#Littles #Speak
In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals...
-- Laura Poitras

#Issues #Understanding #Individual
We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets and in many cases exposing government illegality. They're coming after the journalists and they're coming after the whistleblowers. It's not a good sign if the government is expending much energy trying to find out who journalists are talking to.
-- Laura Poitras

#Government #Talking #Secret
One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.
-- Laura Poitras

#Communication #Thinking #Encryption
There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.
-- Laura Poitras

#Giving Up #Rights #People
In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.
-- Laura Poitras

#Government #Trying #Policy
We don't stand here alone, it's possible through the great organisations that support us. The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed aren't only a threat to privacy but to democracy, when the most important decisions made affect all of us. Thank you to Edward Snowden. I share this with Glenn Greenwald and other journalists who are exposing truth.
-- Laura Poitras

#Support #Decision #Democracy
When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.
-- Laura Poitras

#Decision #Secret #Important
The free software community should be supported more widely. Iâ€™m totally in solidarity with what they do.
-- Laura Poitras

#Community #Should #Solidarity
I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.
-- Laura Poitras

#Thinking #Government #Information
That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.
-- Laura Poitras

#White #People #House

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