128 Quotes About Surveillance
- Author William O. Douglas
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These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of man's life at will."[Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 343 (1966) (dissenting)]
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- Author Jeffrey Rosen
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Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
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- Author Michael Benzehabe
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Dean Rolfe squirmed, coughed, and looked everywhere except in Frank’s eyes. To do what was fraught with legal ramifications. These were the words he had carefully avoided, the hidden croutons in his carefully prepared word salad. “To give you the reach to keep tabs on certain people, no matter where they go. You know . . . a surveillance system.
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- Author Ron Wyden
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For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
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- Author Freidrich Hayek
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Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
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- Author Celeste Chaney
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There is no transparency, Marus. It can’t exist. Surveillance doesn’t go both ways. There are those who watch, and those who are watched; the powerful, and the powerless.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.
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- Author Dave Eggers
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Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.
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- Author Dave Eggers
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Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. “All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.
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