Quotes About Monitoring

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.

If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.

taught to compose a letter on an e-mail account, and then store it as a draft instead of sending it. His colleagues, armed with a password to the same account, could then log in and retrieve the draft e-mail without it ever having been sent, presumably avoiding America's watchful eye.

It watches, he added suddenly. The house. It watches every move you make.

NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world. It is the world leader when it comes to snooping.

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

There are thirty-two closed-circuit television cameras near the flat where George Orwell wrote 1984. The night watchman standing guard at the gate has become the nanny inside the home and the office, hanging over your shoulder in the kitchen, sitting room, boardroom, and even bedroom. But it is not a very good nanny.

When the Imecas hit 240, a Phase 1 emergency kicked in and schools and gas stations and some factories were closed. Phase 2—300 Imecas—closed all factories and forced drivers to leave their cars at home. The trouble was that the monitoring stations were mounted so high up, they misread levels down on the ground. Actual levels were closer to 500 Imecas

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

Roll call. (We have to start every day with this just to check nobody has run away or died in their beds.)

License plate readers—which collect upwards of 1,800 images per hour—can identify the owner of any car that comes within its sights. (Illustration by Molly Zisk, courtesy of The Register)

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital

Most poets must be prohibited; the exercise of the fancy requires watching.

check the balcony to see if anyone is up

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised.

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police

heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU