Quotes About Surveillance

Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down.

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

I would never vote to allow federal agents to spy on American citizens without warrants.

I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

As a senator, Obama denounced the Big Brother provisions of Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, particularly its sections enabling the state to spy on Americans without their knowledge. After taking power, Obama acquired his other face. That face speaks far less, but when it does, it justifies Bush's policies.

Following sporadic reports of intelligence officials misleading Congress about surveilling U.S. citizens - even spying on journalists and political figures and their staffs - there was a series of red flags in 2016 and 2017 that should have drawn attention and action.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

People don't object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it's spying.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.

The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

Spying on our citizens? That's just wrong.

The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.

In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and auto insurance policies, and much more. It will all happen automatically. In a very real way, our rights and freedoms will be modulated by our metadata signatures. What's at stake, obviously, is the future of the human race!

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.