Quotes About Surveillance

I briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of Congress with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times the frequency of Iran.

Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.

State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

FISA targets those who are 'agents of a foreign power.'

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless.

When Ludwig asked if he saw no good points in the Jesuits, he replied: "Yes, they are systematic and persistent in the pursuit of bad ends. But their chief method is surveillance, spying, invasion of the inner life, the violation of people's feelings, and what can be positive in that?

The technique called for drilling a small hole in the red lens of a prospective victim's taillight. Barely visible during the day, at night the opening emitted a brilliant white glow, making a car easier to identify and follow. Hector

There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses.

I know the internet is the stuff a paranoiac's dreams are made of.

will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all

Right now,tucked into the booth,Gray Donohue whispered into the ear of the redhead on his right,while his hand slipped under the table and under the skirt of the female to his left.As he whispered,the redhead lifted her heavy lids,turned her gaze to whereever Gray´s hand had landed,and grinned.Marina whirled back to the bar and drained her beerto the very last bit of foam.He was the best assignment she´d ever had.Or he would be,if she could just get him to notice her.

Stalking the girls' softball team again?

You see one, you've seen 'em both. And here I was, Munro Leaf's watchbird. Here is a watchbird watching two lesbians. Here is a watchbird watching YOU.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.

You never know who's watching.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.