Quotes About Surveillance

In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the "middling sort." Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the sacrosanct space of inner thought that is our birthright. Assaults on that birthright in the forms of legislation, surveillance, and censorship ultimately are precisely as dangerous as our acquiescence in them.

She could have sworn the little blue eye of Edward King's security camera in the cupola ceiling winked at her. It saw all.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards, to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. The principle remains the same in the present era . . . governments dare to aspire, through their intelligence agencies, to a god-like knowledge of every one of us. —Julian Assange

A mole could only avoid and evade the monitoring systems of which he was aware. Which made it crucial that almost no one be permitted to see the whole picture. Within

using the chrome and glass around me to gauge whether there was anyone to my rear trying to keep up.

I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.

A bodyguard. Sounded possible. The guy hadn't recognized me, I'd seen that. He was probably here just for protection and surveillance tag team. Or he could have been the triggerman. The Agency relies on contractor cutouts for its wetwork, people like me. He might have been one of them.

But it seemed clever and careful was exactly what drew the attention of God's Eye.

Lenin taught us that every party member should be a Chekist, that is, should observe and denounce. . . . If we suffer from anything, it is not denunciations but non-denunciations.

okhranka operatives deemed the far right's leaders "uncultured" and "unreliable" and kept them under close surveillance, with good reason.

Every government on the globe was crawling up your behind to keep tabs on you like you were their puppet.

When a criminal justice system works properly, it's not because rational actors know that Big Brother is watching them 24/7 and will swoop down and impose a cost that will cancel any ill-gotten gain. No democracy has the resources or the will to turn society into that kind of Skinner box.

Big Data isn't magic, and it doesn't tell the feds who's a terrorist and who's not. But it doesn't have to be magic to generate long lists of people who are in some ways red-flagged, elevated-risk, "people of interest." Most of the people on those lists will have nothing to do with terrorism. How confident are you that you're not one of them?

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

I opened the car door; then, just to be thorough, I got out and knelt in front of the bumper. And found it, magnetically affixed to the back of the license plate. I pulled it off: a miniature GPS tracking device. A box about three inches by one containing a GPS receiver and a cellular modem. That little toy could transmit a vehicle's location over a cell-phone network.

Keep your eyes open, fireheart. Keep your ears pricked. Keep looking behind you. Because one day I will find you, and you'll be crowfood. - Tigerclaw

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 crowfood.

There's no way they weren't aware that we were watching them. They wanted us to see! It was like they were running a nonstop, year-round episode of How It's Made by Aliens.

El gobierno nos ha espiado toda la vida, pero al menos tenemos nuestras chucherías favoritas. Algo es algo.

Most users chose to run a "voyeur channel," which was like being the star of your own twenty-four-hour reality show. Hovering virtual cameras would follow your avatar around the OASIS as you went about your day-to-day activities.

Now everyone could be on TV, every second of every day, whether or not anyone was watching.

Setec Astronomy.

Tracking the location of a cell phone for 127 days "provides an all-encompassing record of the holder's whereabouts, . . . which reveals the familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations."15 Roberts stressed once more that location tracking lets police learn the privacies of a person's life.

California v. Greenwood in 1988, the Court held that when police searched a person's garbage that was left on the street for pickup, there was not a search, and no warrant was required.