Quotes About Surveillance

Frog End, reduced to a single pub and no shop, might appear to be the sort of boring place where nothing much happened but, as he had discovered, this was far from the case. Beneath the placid surface swirled a positive maelstrom of intrigue, scandal and misbehaviour, with a surveillance network to rival the Russian KGB in its ruthless efficiency...

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

We're not all on the same page here. So most of us in the technology community are opposed to what we call backdoors that would allow law enforcement to tap in.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

San Quentin's is the safest beach in the world. We're not talking about lifeguards here who might yell at someone who's being rude-we're talking about armed guards, in watchtowers, two blocks away.

THE TALAMASCA We watch And we are always here.

Don't worry, Aya-la," Tally said, firmly grasping her wrist. "You'll still be real, even with no hovercam watching.

That kind of random surveillance is almost impossible to defeat.

A white, gummy substance smeared on the club's plate-glass window blocked a view of the interior from the sidewalk. Inside, signs on the wall read: "Tough Guys Don't Squeal," "Don't Talk. This Place Is Bugged" and "The Enemy Is Listening.

Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me

As Henry Nevinson also pointed out, the rule of law, such as it was, functioned in a system in which Indians were 'compelled to live permanently under a system of official surveillance which reads their private letters, detains their telegrams, and hires men to watch their actions'. This, then, was the rule of law the British taught us. We have much to unlearn.

her. "I couldn't get down from the roof without being seen." Plausible enough. "I can understand why you were watching Doe, but why did the archdiocese ask you to keep an eye on her attorney?" "Belt-and-suspenders lawyering. They wanted to discredit the messenger–especially if she was a depressed, quasi-suicidal loon who had a grudge against the archdiocese." "Was she?" "Not

I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.