Quotes About Surveillance

Which means he has tech that can block his image from registering on cameras.

Blake set his phone to speaker, audio-only, and had Myla tie it into the microphone and sound system of the motel's television set. This way, he and Jenna could speak normally in the direction of the television and their voices would be picked up easily, and all three in the room could hear and see audio or video coming from whoever answered.

holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,

If we happen to pass within fifty yards of any of our other drones, so that they become operable again, let me know.

Using the eye of God technique, taped broadcasts were pitched at specific VCI members. A typical broadcast would say, "We know you, Nguyen Van Nguyen; we know where you live! We know you are a communist traitor, a lackey of Hanoi, who illegally collects taxes in Vinh Thanh Hamlet. Soon the soldiers and police are coming for you. Rally now, Nguyen Van Nguyen; rally now while there is still time!

The best car safety device is a rear view mirror with a cop in it.

At the height of the Cold War, the CIA made copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm rain down from the Communist sky.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

Israel was among the first governments to secure a backdoor deal with a social media company, but it's far from the last.

The responses were the same, sometimes almost word for word with what he had said earlier. As it continued, officers appeared on the far side of the glass partition and Fritz stopped, sometimes turning to the federal men—"You

prisoners, and a $2 billion NSA data center at Bluffdale, Utah, to store Americans' intercepted email, text, and phone

Prior to the 2013 Snowden leaks, few people were aware of the NSA's existence, even as it rapidly grew around them. Those

Ketchum reports that the database is sometimes referred to by the code name "Main Core" and that some eight million Americans were listed in Main Core as potentially

This began in earnest with the Real Time Regional Gateway program [RTRG], implemented in Iraq and then in Afghanistan to vacuum up all possible information. The ethos of RTRG appeared in the U.S. in the form of the PRISM data-mining program. Americans were scandalized to learn from .

ONE ALL-TOO-COMMON RESPONSE TO BOTH UNWARRANTED SURVEILLANCE and the growing police state goes as follows: "If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

To put it bluntly, we are living in an electronic concentration camp. Through a series of imperceptible steps, we have willingly allowed ourselves to become enmeshed in a system that knows the most intimate details of our lives, analyzes them, and treats us accordingly.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. "And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.

This was perfect dictator-logic: we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy.

In Hitler's Third Reich it is estimated that there was one Gestapo agent for every 2000 citizens, and in Stalin's USSR there was one KGB agent for every 5830 people. In the GDR, there was one Stasi officer or informant for every sixty-three people. If part-time informers are included, some estimates have the ratio as high as one informer for every 6.5 citizens.

The Stasi had used radiation to mark people and objects it wanted to track. It developed a range of radioactive tags including irradiated pins it could surreptitiously insert into a person's clothing, radioactive magnets to place on cars, and radioactive pellets to shoot into tyres.

It is not widely known that in the end, 65 per cent of the church leaders were informers for us, and the rest of them were under surveillance anyhow.