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Quotes About Surveillance

Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.
~ John Edgar Wideman
It was said that Gilan could approach to within a few meters of a wide-awake sentry, steal his belt and shoes and leave the man wondering why his pants were falling down and his feet were cold. Horace knew it was an exaggeration—but not by much.
~ John Flanagan
Fortunately for terrible spies, most people are terrible observers.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I don't know how you can walk around in a utility fog that could start disassembling your body anything your Governors decide they're done with you.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Non lavori al negozio tutti i giorni" "Conosci i miei orari?" "Non è difficile scoprirlo" " Ti rendi conto che è quello che fanno gli stalker... individuare gli orari delle loro vittime
~ Elizabeth Craft
The birds do not like this camera," Sveinsson said. "So they fly over it and shit on it.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Luca knows we're following him." His voice, soft and deep, seemed to roll right through to my bones. "We don't have time for you to shimmy up and down drainpipes like you usually do." My coat dropped in a heap on the floor, and I suddenly felt able to breathe without the hot, sticky weight of the leather clinging to me. Maybe we didn't have time to . . . . "Did you say shimmy?" He nodded. "I never shimmy. I climb." "Then you and I have different views on what climbing is.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
The corners of his lips picked up. "You really didn't know I've been following you for the last five weeks?" Yeah, please feel free to make me feel stupid for that, Ken doll. I shook my head. "Well, of course not, because if you knew someone was watching you, you probably wouldn't have given yourself a spanking on the roof." And just like that, the man turned the humour back on. Weird. - Chapter 3: Heather and Brendan
~ Elizabeth Morgan
The unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
They recited detail after detail from newspapers and TV. "Where were you hiding that night on the turnpike?" i wanted to scream at them. "I didn't see you!
~ Assata Shakur
In a hot second, the marshals and the FBI agents are crawling all over me. They seem to be trying to jerk my head off my shoulders. The judge has ordered that i am to be photographed, today, now, and that all the force necessary to take the pictures in the way the FBI wants to take them is to be used.
~ Assata Shakur
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
~ David R. Ellis
Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.
~ Barkha Dutt
We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.
~ John McAfee
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
~ Yochai Benkler
It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.
~ Edward Snowden
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
~ Claire Danes
There is nothing quite like working on a counter-terrorism case in real time.
~ Keir Starmer
My dad and my brother have Google alerts out on me.
~ Cassidy Freeman
The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.
~ Rick Smolan
Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.
~ Sanjay Kumar
Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.
~ Michael Hayden
There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.
~ James Comey