Quotes About Surveillance

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Keep your eyes open, Fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I'll find you, and then you'll be crow-food.

We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.

Libertarians and criminals complain about the surveillance state when they see a camera. Police officers complain about it when they don't.

These days Big Brother, or more precisely, your Bratty Techno Uncle, doesn't need an army of paid informers to keep tabs on you. Everybody seems dead keen to take personal responsibility for their own surveillance. So the problem with trying to keep a low profile is that sooner or later you'll have an involuntary encounter with someone who's dying to share your details with the world.

Us police like our CCTV. It makes our job easier, and our only complaint about the surveillance state is that it's not nearly as seamless as everyone seems to think it is. Just ask anyone who's had to sit through five hundred hours of grainy video on the off-chance someone in a hoody looked the wrong way at the right moment.

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

Vivian was not alone in thinking that a man who spent so much time discussing table tennis was probably a spy.

The KGB, however, was convinced that the entire Soviet embassy was the target of a gigantic and sustained eavesdropping campaign, and the fact that this snooping was invisible confirmed that the British must be very good at it.

agents abroad. Within MI6, Section V played

The double agents were now controlling their controllers.

Like long-distance running, successful espionage requires patience, stamina, and timing.

I asked for daily reports on developments at major financial firms and,

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?

I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera.

The U.K. is at the heart of intelligence gathering with our allies to call out hostile activity.

Living in the 'Big Brother' house is a bit like living in hell. Only hotter.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.

Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.

about an hour, Malik watching through the sunroof, following every move the chopper makes overhead. "It's

Through the cold night air the Assistant Commissioner imagined for a moment that between the verses he could hear the footsteps of the warders pacing in the tower.