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Quotes About Surveillance

I'm always leery about bumping into somebody. One time I was with my wife in a restaurant, I saw somebody from my undercover days, and I got up and we just walked out.
~ Joseph D. Pistone
I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.
~ Ai Weiwei
The United States is walking in the same direction as China, we're just allowing private companies to monetize left, right and center. Just because it's not the state doesn't mean that there isn't harmful impacts that could come if you have one or two large companies monitoring or tracking everything you do.
~ Christopher Wylie
I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.
~ Stephen Moyer
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.
~ Chris Chocola
Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.
~ Ronald Kessler
The whole Big Brother vision of the world is looming large.
~ Katharine Gun
Drones don't stop people from coming across the border, they merely tell you that someone is coming across the border.
~ Kris Kobach
Be on the lookout for Saban Brands on a constant basis.
~ Haim Saban
Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.
~ Hasan M. Elahi
Big Brother is watching... look busy.
~ Brandon Boyd
I can't tell you the number of times I've been walking over an archaeological site. And you can't see anything on the ground, and pull back hundreds of miles in space, and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids.
~ Sarah Parcak
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
There have been people that suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody - for good guys and bad guys.
~ Tim Cook
You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and send it through an airport security check. In effect, the guard would be looking at an X-ray of a lung.
~ Albert Brooks
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
~ George Orwell
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
~ Ray Bradbury
He had written a short story once called "The Pedestrian," about a man who is incarcerated by the police after he is stopped simply for walking.
~ Ray Bradbury
If this goes on . . ." thought Ray Bradbury, "nobody will read books anymore," and Fahrenheit 451 began. He had written a short story once called "The Pedestrian," about a man who is incarcerated by the police after he is stopped simply for walking. That story became part of the world he was building, and seventeen-year-old Clarisse McLellan becomes a pedestrian in a world where nobody walks.
~ Ray Bradbury
It should be obvious to anyone paying attention that the pandemic is being prolonged and exaggerated for a reason, and it's not because there's concern for life. Quite the contrary. It's a ploy to quite literally enslave the global population within a digital surveillance system—a system so unnatural and inhumane that no rational population would ever
~ Joseph Mercola
George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 than anything else.
~ Joseph Mercola
A whiff of brine, a swank trestle adumbrant, Loading Only No Standing, 14th & 10th—this was Tetration's NY HQ. I went through the doors and stood facing anything but the street, until a Tetbot treaded over to make inquiries. I stood behind a rubberplant. The Tetbot reversed and treaded after me. It was a clownwigged trashcan that barely reached my lowest hanging ball yet without compunction it was demanding my credentials: Tetrateer? or Tetguest?
~ Joshua Cohen
Big Brother is catching.
~ Judith Fitzgerald
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN