Quotes About Surveillance

Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.

'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries are floated to throw 'TMZ' off the scent.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

Everybody has lost their digital privacy.

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's system and find out everything about that person's life because it's all on a computer.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

Trailblazer was the NSA's attempt to catch up with the digital age. The problem is, Trailblazer didn't do anything. As far as I know, it didn't produce anything for roughly a little over $4 billion.

Facebook creeps me out.

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

I'm a woman in technology, I think that we have to consider our border and use the technology we have to be sure that we secure it. If you build a six foot wall, somebody may jump eight feet. But, maybe there's surveillance... there's many high tech things that we can use to be sure we are protecting our borders.

We've seen historically how marginalized communities or historically marginalized communities particularly suffer from tech companies unchecked data collection and use.

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

What we need is a 'Smart Wall' to solve our 21st century border problems. A Smart Wall would use sensor, radar and surveillance technologies to detect and track incursions across our border so we can deploy efficiently our most important resource, the men and women of Border Patrol, to perform the most difficult task - interdiction.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

For those Muslim Chinese not in camps, Xinjiang is a surveillance state. Millions of artificial-intelligence-powered cameras use facial- and gait-recognition technologies to monitor individuals, Internet activity is closely tracked and DNA samples are collected.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

The No. 1 reason for me to support and help launch Telegram was to build a means of communication that can't be accessed by the Russian security agencies, so I can talk about it for hours.

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.