Quotes About Surveillance

I read something recently about authorities using facial recognition in cities to track people simply walking around. That's kind of unsettling.

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed.

We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.

Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

A whole network of hatred across the web, and I wonder what sits in the middle, sensing the vibrations and waiting to pounce.

Numa era de vigilância comercial omnipresente que é inerente à capacidade de as empresas prestarem os serviços que solicitamos, o tipo de privacidade que tínhamos no passado morreu.

To the CIA, everyone's an outsider.

They might not love Big Brother, but they knew he was part of the family now.

I need not point out that this affair represents an appalling setback," he wrote on New Year's Eve 1952. He pointed out that, in Poland and elsewhere in the Soviet orbit, the "perfection of totalitarian police state techniques is approaching '1984' efficiency to a degree where 'resistance' can probably exist only in the minds of the enslaved peoples.

Under Cheney's direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J. Edgar Hoover. In public speeches, the president, the vice president, and the attorney general renewed the spirit of the Red raids. In top secret orders, they revived the techniques of surveillance that the FBI had used in the war on communism. The

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.

their installations. Once a wiretap was approved, Hoover considered it approved forever. Hoover had asserted that the FBI was free to install bugs at will, without informing a higher authority. He told Katzenbach that this power had been granted him in perpetuity by Franklin Delano Roosevelt a quarter of a century ago.

Hoover had installed 738 bugs on his own authority since 1960; the Justice Department's attorneys had been informed about only 158 of them, roughly one in five.

The Bureau had conducted uncounted break-ins and black-bag jobs on Hoover's say-so. The

She also had run Stellar Wind since its inception. Mueller made her his right hand.

Kissinger would select suspects for surveillance. If Hoover concurred, the taps would go in. The responsibility for finding the leakers and stopping the leaks would rest entirely on the FBI. On

authorize wiretaps to protect the United States from foreign spies and subversives. But the targets of these taps were not KGB agents. They were thirteen American government officials and four newspaper reporters. Over the next two years, though the leaks went on, the taps never revealed a shred of incriminating evidence against anyone. But they were the first step down the road to Watergate. On