Quotes About Surveillance

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

We can all relate at some level to being fascinated by looking at ourselves. You see it every time little kids walk into a store with surveillance and start dancing and waving at themselves.

I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.

Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.

I don't want to get into specifics of how I communicate with people, but I will say that people are concerned about being monitored.

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.

I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.

Ever since we've had electronic communications, and particularly during a time of war, presidents have authorized the electronic surveillance of the enemy.