Quotes About Surveillance

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Orwell saw that people might become slaves of the state, but he did not foresee that they might also become something else that would horrify him—products of corporations, data resources to be endlessly mined and peddled elsewhere.

The second driver of the current Orwell boom is the post-9/11 rise of the intelligence state.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

We're not Big Brother, we'll leave that to others.

All of North Korea is a jail.

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are staples. The four countries of highest interest - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - are constants.

My real concern is what happens if China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica, what happens if North Korea becomes the next Cambridge Analytica?

In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from.

What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

They've been taping your phone conversations for four years." He lay down again, weeping silently. "I want to die," he said.

So the I.F. is spying on Earth. Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard. Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans, Cess said. There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms.

The truth is that everyone is under arrest. Or soon will be. They dont have to restrict your movements. They just have to know where you are.

You might think that fingerprints and numbers give you a distinct identity. But soon there will be no identity so distinct as simply to have none. The truth is that everyone is under arrest. Or soon will be. They dont have to restrict your movements. They just have to know where you are.

I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it.

The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining, he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

The law didn't care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

Trading privacy for security is stupid enough; not getting any actual security in the bargain is even more stupid.