Quotes About Surveillance

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

In other words, everyone in the panopticon knew they could be watched at all times, so in the end, only minimal watching actually needed to happen. The panopticon would create a sense of paranoia so pervasive that its inhabitants became practically self-governing.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

When the KH-13s weren't imaging, the hydrazine-powered thrusters kept them high enough to reduce atmospheric drag.

The man at the keyboard frowned. The green dot moved with the car, miles away. I watched the three detectives glued to the screen. This, I thought, is the police work of the future

Primero temí que fuera muy difícil averiguar algo de estos tipos que andan en los servicios de inteligencia, y toda esa mano.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

and he thinks of Argus Panoptes, the watchman of Hera, who had eyeballs all over his head and even on the tips of his fingers, so many eyes that when he closed fifty of them to sleep he held fifty more open to keep watch.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

One car behind him. Two

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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

Although it was published in 1977, "A Scanner Darkly's" mood is already postpunk.

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.