128 Quotes About Surveillance
- Author Olawale Daniel
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The most dangerous and powerful people in the world do not carry guns or shoot missiles, they write code to surveil and suppress the opposing views.
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- Author Olawale Daniel
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Writing code is one of the most peaceful things one can do if the intentions are right.
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- Author Edward Snowden
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Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
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- Author Steven Magee
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When you pay cash for everything, your credit score becomes irrelevant.
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- Author Edward Snowden
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Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.
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- Author Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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Cookies used to cause cavities only in our teeth. Now they also cause cavities in our privacy.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Your utility meters, smart televisions, cell phones, telephones, computers, credit cards, banks, and internet are all surveillance devices that are recording your activities and that information may be later used against you.
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- Author David Vincent
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Since the 1970s, there has been a continual tendency to over-estimate the surveillance capacities of new technologies. In the sense of the physical invasion of privacy, surveillance comprises five sequential events: the capacity to observe; the act of observation; comprehension of what is seen; intervention on the basis of that knowledge; and a consequent change of behaviour by the subject. Too often the final four have been assumed from the possibility of the first.
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- Author Ronald Reagan
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
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