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Quotes About Privacy

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
~ Howard Rheingold
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
~ Bruce Sterling
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
~ Howard Rheingold
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
~ Mikko Hypponen
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
~ Mikko Hypponen
When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.
~ Pierre Omidyar
Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.
~ Riz Ahmed
There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.
~ Michael Hayden
Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
~ Mike Pompeo
I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.
~ Trevor Paglen
Representation is a sort of surveillance.
~ Martine Syms
Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.
~ Sarah Jeong
From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a strong tradition of overseeing the government's power to spy on its citizens.
~ Ari Melber
Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.
~ Dominic Grieve
Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.
~ Keir Starmer
The nature of the government's surveillance on me and my family is forensically proven and not subject to legitimate question.
~ Sharyl Attkisson
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion of protections when it came obtaining permission for wiretaps and other surveillance methods.
~ Sharyl Attkisson
I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.
~ Joshua Cohen
We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.
~ Trevor Paglen
In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.
~ Sarah Jeong
In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.
~ Esther Dyson
I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.
~ Keir Starmer
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.
~ Steven Knight
I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.
~ Zephyr Teachout