Quotes About Surveillance

On the street, people are expected to fear and hate everyone but their own kind, but with all of us armed and watchful, people stared, but they let us alone. Our neighborhood is too small for us to play those kinds of games.

But this had always been part of his work—no matter how vast the security apparatus behind you, the fact was that, in the end, you were alone.

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part…. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.

A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete.

Men object to the surveillance of a wife, and most justly; but they seem to forget that it is nothing compared to the unscrupulous espionage of a courtesan.

two components of the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—the enabling of blanket authorizations for electronic surveillance and the elimination of the FISA judge's authority to scrutinize the factual basis for a warrant application—permitted a pattern of conduct that violated the Fourth Amendment rights of millions of people.

Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie. "Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.

We're being followed," I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us,

As a wise man named Ben Franklin once said, those who would sacrifice liberty for security desire neither. I

She concentrated on the former East Germany, stronghold of the infamous secret police, the Stasi (the Ministry for State Security).

He gave me a lecture about the power of pounding the pavement, even in these days when computers and cell towers and security cameras keep track of what we eat and drink, where we travel and sleep, who we screw, when we leave the house, and down what forbidden road Google has taken us.

Romance isn't dead, it's just under constant surveillance.

Incluso en Moscú, el acceso a los mapas callejeros o a los directorios telefónicos estaba restringido durante la época soviética, por lo visto para desalentar las reuniones que pudieran alentar las críticas al régimen. En

I'll see if I can get some more video files," Raina said. "But a lot of the surveillance cameras in Kintore are cloud stored, especially the civic ones covering the streets. Hacking them is going to be a little more difficult." "Do what you can," he told her.

They know what we're planning, and we know what they're planning. But they don't know we know.

He could have walked in through the main gate and they'd never know. Usually. And that was the one thing that Adam had lectured him about ceaselessly. There was no usual.

He knew very little about running a case, and everything about watching over people's shoulders.

What is it every authoritarian government says? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Joey almost smiled at how the spy chief's jaw muscles were working hard to keep his expression neutral.

Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”

They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.