Quotes About Surveillance

The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.

Mrs. Norris

Power wants us numbered and not named, carded and not just remembering our name, address, telephone number, purpose, social security number, PIN, and so forth. Power has good reasons. As long as we have papers, we cohere;

Kamera, video, telepon, dan internet membuat bersembunyi semakin sulit dilakukan sekarang ini" - Nicholas Flamel

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Discipline "makes" individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Visibility is a trap.

Órdenes; para eso se inventó el teléfono, para capturar a los enemigos del gobierno!

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.

CIA case officers, or COs,

Freedom and not peace, is essential when it comes on learning new concepts. We learn best by having fun. In enjoyment, rather than being under total surveillance.

Most of the laws, or rules are easily broken whenever there is no one watching or approaching us in a given environment.

These days, people are terrified of mediocre names like the FBI and CIA; because they sold their rights and freedoms to the state.

Panopte's Eye Tamai Kobayashi

Of course, Orwell was not the first to teach us about the spiritual devastations of tyranny. What is irreplaceable about his work is his insistence that it makes little difference if our wardens are inspired by right- or left-wing ideologies. The gates of the prison are equally impenetrable, surveillance equally rigorous, icon-worship equally pervasive.

An Orwellian world is much easier to recognize, and to oppose, than a Huxleyan.

But why is it that it seems that it's already happened? Like it's happened thousands of times before, that it will always happen, like a piece of CCTV footage of the city, stuck on loop.

At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.

Boggan got him to translate and heard how hairdressers in Baghdad had to report subversive remarks made by women under the driers. What was a hairdresser to do if her sensibly wary customers steered clear of politics? For how long could she keep telling the secret police that she had nothing to report, without running the risk of the spies marking her down as uncooperative?

Wonderful. Save the world, and all it earns you is suspicion and surveillance. Par for the course for IDF, Granger thought, grimly. It was a wonder Earth still existed after not one, but two alien invasions, given the level of rampant bureaucracy and mistrust and general incompetency. But

Good surveillence and good books don't mix.

After a while I decided he was calculating camera angles and placement, studying pedestrian traffic patterns, gauging penetration zones, and it became obvious that he didn't see people at all, that I could smile and wave at him every time he looked my way and he wouldn't notice me. I would be just another data point, part of a flow pattern, a consumer unit.

Since the Red Guards had removed the goods displayed in the windows of the shops, Mao's official portraits were put there. A person walking down the streets in the shopping district would not only be confused by rows of shops bearing the same name, but also had the uncanny feeling of being watched by a hundred faces of Mao.