Quotes from Laura Poitras

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.