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Quotes About Surveillance

Todos necesitamos designar a los enemigos de la seguridad para evitar ser considerados parte de ellos... Necesitamos acusar para ser absueltos, excluir para evitar la exclusión. Necesitamos confiar en la eficacia de los dispositivos de vigilancia para permitirnos creer que las criaturas decentes que somos saldrán ilesas de las trampas que ponen esos dispositivos. Y para confirmarnos y reafirmarnos en nuestra decencia y en lo adecuado de nuestro comportamiento
~ Zygmunt Bauman
En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
la red muestra lo mismo que se ve en un patio escolar, con la diferencia de que en este patio no hay maestros, ni policías, ni moderadores que vigilen lo que sucede".
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Religion in this country is worse than communism. Say the wrong thing, think the wrong thing and, look--there's the Stasi knocking at your door.
~ A. Manette Ansay
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?
~ Alan Moore
Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.
~ Alan Moore
Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the
~ Alan Moore
Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.
~ Desmond Bristow
gran control tecnológico ejercido sobre la población en desplazamientos e información es aceptado por la influencia confuciana
~ Detlef Nolte
I like seeing people when they can't see me.
~ Dodie Smith
So you got Black Lives Matter up your ass, every citizen a journalist with a cell-phone camera at the ready, and you go to work each day with the whole world thinking you're a murdering racist. Okay
~ Don Winslow
We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.
~ Jenny Offill
Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.
~ Jenny Offill
So we are being systematically trained to fear this false rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.
~ Jerry Brown
All three negative utopias make it appear that it is possible to dehumanize man completely, and yet for life to go on.
~ Erich Fromm
We don't like to be intimate alone. Some couples take this one step further, confusing intimacy with control. What passes for care is actually convert surveillance. .. When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and private space is denied, fusion replaces intimacy and possession co-opts love.
~ Esther Perel
the ferret, hunting, eyes on the ground, never hears footsteps of the hawk
~ Andrew Vachss
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~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
~ Andy Rooney
When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.
~ Tom Stoppard
Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?
~ Val McDermid
We now expect Google, Facebook, Twitter and other companies to police the Internet for dangerous and illegal material - violent, terrorist, criminal - and some democratic governments require them to do so. But what if they did decide to repress material for political reasons? How would we know?
~ Anne Applebaum
WhatsApp doesn't only fail to protect your WhatsApp messages - this app is being consistently used as a Trojan horse to spy on your non-WhatsApp photos and messages.
~ Pavel Durov
Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.
~ Pavel Durov