Quotes About Surveillance

More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in

of age. No distinguishing tattoos or birthmarks." He looked up, making sure he was being followed. "Five-ten

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture from behind the counter. That sort of thing is so odd.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Who watches the watchmen?

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

The best surveillance is when everyone suspects that they're being watched all the time. The government then doesn't even have to watch the cameras—they need only let people believe someone might be watching.

To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

Like clocks, recording devices were everywhere embedded; everything was being recorded at every moment, like a huge, infernal Mac Time Machine backup system that created backups of backups regressing into infinity. Who would play these back? Who would pick among them like the survivor of a hideous bombing looking for the rags once worn by his dead and naked mother?

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There's a fundamental democratic logic to it.

These days you can't do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

El que vigila al pueblo acaba siendo vigilado por el pueblo. Hay una fundamental lógica democrática en ello»

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.