Surveillance famous quotes

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
-- Al Gore

#Priorities #Secret #Surveillance

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
-- Andrew Vachss

#Running #Surveillance #Narrators

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
-- Belle Boyd

#Military #Surveillance #Jolly

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Surveillance #Internet #Models

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
-- Cory Doctorow

#War #Winning #Surveillance

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka

#Essentials #Disease #Surveillance

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,
-- Eric Schmidt

#Government #Surveillance #Solutions

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Political #Surveillance #Used

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Mean #Roots #Surveillance

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Thinking #Nsa #Surveillance

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Surveillance #Way #Should

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
-- Glenn Greenwald

#Nsa #Whistleblowers #Surveillance

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
-- Howard Rheingold

#Surveillance #Participation #Openness

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
-- Howard Rheingold

#Mean #Surveillance #Becoming

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.
-- Ivica Dacic

#Police #Surveillance #Private Life

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
-- Jeffrey Toobin

#United States #World #Surveillance

As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.
-- Jeremy Hammond

#Wikileaks #World #Surveillance

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
-- Julian Assange

#Self #People #Surveillance

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
-- Katharine Graham

#Political #Facts #Surveillance

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.
-- Konstantin Rokossovsky

#Surveillance #Steps #Affair

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
-- Larry Craig

#Government #Surveillance

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.
-- Marc Lamont Hill

#Mean #Accountability #Surveillance

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
-- Marc Maron

#Surveillance #Morality #Relics

Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.
-- Mary Barnett Gilson

#Work #Organization #Surveillance

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
-- Miranda Lambert

#Sound #Surveillance #Exciting

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
-- Richard Stallman

#Surveillance

I came to the United States because I valued living as a free person, one who is able to advocate in a democratic society. Unfortunately, the U.S. has been turning into a less free society, a police and surveillance state, especially after 9/11.
-- Sami Al-Arian

#Police #Surveillance #Able

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.
-- Scott Carpenter

#Space #Surveillance #Astronaut

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.
-- Stephen Colbert

#Government #Surveillance #Doing Nothing

We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.
-- Stephen Colbert

#People #Credit #Surveillance

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.
-- Wes Craven

#School #Writing #Surveillance

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
-- William Kristol

#Country #Safe #Surveillance

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
-- Yochai Benkler

#Government #Needs #Surveillance

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Liberty #Surveillance #Information

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
-- Barton Gellman

#New York #Voice #Surveillance

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.
-- Dana Bash

#Balance #Safe #Surveillance

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.
-- Tom Burr

#Self #Landscape #Surveillance

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
-- Nat Hentoff

#America #Surveillance

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately
-- Ron Wyden

#President #Surveillance #Authority