Quotes About Surveillance

flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens.

When information about who is or is not a security threat is a product to be sold as readily as information about who buys Harry Potter books on Amazon or who has taken a Caribbean cruise and might enjoy one in Alaska, it changes the values of a culture. Not only does it create an incentive to spy, torture and generate false information but it creates a powerful impetus to perpetuate the fear and sense of peril that created the industry in the first place.

Today I fear that we are in fact waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us. —Richard Thomas, U.K. information commissioner, November 2006

Peace is bad for business. When the former Soviet Union fell apart, the U.S. defense industry was staring into the face of a falling market share: To grow, it would have to find a new enemy. It would also help if it expanded its product line from building fighter jets to the newfangled demand for applications involving surveillance.

This ritual use of constant surveillance is a vivid example of the real motivation behind the myth: Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn't care about women's appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will be good, but to make sure that they will know they are being watched.

The vaccine passport platform is the first step toward a social credit system, like the one in China that enslaves a billion people. In China, the CCP can find any dissident in five minutes because of the 360-degree surveillance of the social credit system.

Suddenly she saw a man who was snapping her picture. She stared at him and realized that he was short, had black hair, a hard face, and was wearing a gray suit. He looked to be of Italian descent. Could he possibly be Benny the Slippery One Caputti?

I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you.

You can keep nothing safe from our eyes and ears. This is your own history. We are your most perilous and dutiful brethren, the song of our hearts at once furious and sad. For only you could grant me these lyrical modes. I call them back to you. Here is the sole talent I ever dared nurture. Here is all of my American education.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

Call it freedom, it's based on control. Everybody connected together, impossible anybody should ever get lost, ever again. Take the next step, connect it to these cell phones, you've got a total Web of surveillance, inescapable. You remember the comics in the Daily News ? Dick Tracy's wrist radio? It'll be everywhere, the rubes'll all be begging to wear one, handcuffs of the future. Terrific. What they dream about at the Pentagon, worldwide martial law.

You remember the comics in the Daily News? Dick Tracy's wrist radio? it'll be everywhere, the rubes'll all be begging to wear one, handcuffs of the future. Terrific. What they dream about at the Pentagon, worldwide martial law.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

The discretion of the watcher versus the privacy of the watched was just another arms race; this one, I could see, would run and run.

Inslaw's William Hamilton had independently learned from a Canadian official that PROMIS was being used in nine hundred different locations in Canada.

Namebase, author Daniel Brandt

Thanks for keeping your eye on them. I appreciate it. But I wish you wouldn't do that with the ears. It's been a long time Nate said, I kinda missed it/

One is struck again and again, in all the historical documents, by how small the Gestapo organisation really was, by how the Nazis repressed the entire German population with such a relatively small apparatus – particularly compared to, for example, the East German Stasi later in the same century. The Stasi employed more than 100,000 people to keep an eye on 17 million East Germans, while the Gestapo apparently needed no more than 40–60,000 for an empire of some 80 million

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" twisted logic, but okay.

That's the other thing I want to talk to you about," Johnson said. "As you've been talking, we've been scanning your brain. See that cerebral scanner on the ceiling—you know, the big light beam shining down on your head?

If you try to separate from her in any way . . ." "She will bark?" Konstantin asked. "Yes. If she barks for longer than one minute, the electronic sensor in her collar will send an alert. Cutting the collar or removing it will also trigger an alert." Matilda stared at him. "If anything happens to Rooster or her collar, I will know. I will come. I will bring friends. I hope we understand each other.