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Surveillance makes us feel like prey, just as it makes the surveillors act like predators. — Bruce Schneier

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

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

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

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally. — Barton Gellman

It seems whenever the government doesn't want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security. — Kenneth Eade

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. — Barry Eisler

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

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs. — Auliq Ice

It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow. — Anna Funder

As the old saying went: "Not all windowless vans have residential surveillance equipment. — Joseph Fink

The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit. — Jessie Burton

Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge. — Bruce Schneier

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

When it's officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it's not called spying. It's called surveillance. — Neal Shusterman

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient — Aron Nimzowitsch

Sunsets require sunshine ["Surveillance: Out of the Shadows," New York Review of Books, June 2, 2015]. — David Cole

In a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times. — Ramez Naam

Not enough people know or understand just how little freedom we have left. — Korban Blake

Is mass surveillance worth it when its fiercest advocates can only say that it "contributed to our understanding" of cases "at the margins"? — Julia Angwin

The Social Engineers wet dream is to be able to surveil us in our sleep — Dean Cavanagh

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

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance. — Michel Foucault

Even they couldn't dream of a world in which citizens voluntarily carried tracking devices, conducted self-surveillance and reported on — Adam Johnson

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

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time. — Cory Doctorow

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera. — Hasan M. Elahi

Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity. — Jeff Shear

I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

When you sit at the back of a room you can keep a check on everything. — Sara Sheridan

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple. — Bruce Schneier

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden

If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India. — U.S. Dept. Of Fear

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance. — Jack Vance

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes. — Edward Snowden

Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. — Edward Snowden

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

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

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

If Big Data's two running stories have been surveillance and money, for the last three years I've been working on a third: the human story. — Christian Rudder

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

The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge. — Barton Gellman

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights. — David Blunkett

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. — Barack Obama

we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited. — David Lagercrantz

Mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power. — Glenn Greenwald

Raw. Weeks of surveillance had confirmed — Alexa Davis

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. — Bruce Sterling

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

Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

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

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

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'. — Philip K. Dick

NEOTAP replaces God and parents. We have surveillance to replace God — Noah Cicero

The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door. — G.K. Chesterton

Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty. — Erin Kellison

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another. — Sara Sheridan

Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape. — James Bamford

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices. — Steven Magee

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon. — Mikko Hypponen

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests. — Bruce Schneier

We have put over Â£2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards — David Blunkett

Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action. — Michel Foucault

Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company. — Ken Liu

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on. — Davis Bunn

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you. — Bruce Schneier

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. — P.D. James

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. — Edward Snowden

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance. — Annalee Newitz

What a jolly thing military surveillance is! — Belle Boyd

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world. — Dave Eggers

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

Obfuscation is the deliberate addition of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection. — Finn Brunton

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

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate. — Barton Gellman

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

It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens. — Ally Carter

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

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

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

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. — Glenn Greenwald

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. — Nick Harkaway

They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control. — Katha Pollitt

I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it. — Cornel West

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. — Agnes Smedley

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

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

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. — Ron Wyden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. — Edward Snowden

The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both. — John Perry Barlow

Nobody in the government is talking. They say it's a case of national security. — Kenneth Eade