128 Quotes About Surveillance
- Author Steven Magee
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They are watching me...and I am watching them!
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- Author Steven Magee
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Surveillance is a two way street.
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- Author Anna Funder
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You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. “And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.
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- Author Michel Foucault
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Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
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- Author Steven Magee
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If you want to be watched by the government, start telling people that you are going to shut down the Space industry.
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- Author Anna Funder
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I once saw a note on a Stasi file from early 1989 that I would never forget. In it a young lieutenant alerted his superiors to the fact that there were so many informers in church opposition groups at demonstrations that they were making these groups appear stronger than they really were. In one of the most beautiful ironies I have ever seen, he dutifully noted that, by having swelled the ranks of the opposition, the Stasi was giving the people heart to keep demonstrating against them.
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- Author Steven Magee
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There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.
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- Author Sara Sheridan
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Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
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- Author James Scott
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The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.
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