Quotes About Surveillance

Mountain was being watched by too many

The government spying on people doesn't literally make programmers write worse code. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas will win. And because this is so important to hackers, they're especially sensitive to it. They can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.

Modern life is one sweeping, cradle-to-grave invasion of privacy. An encroachment on our ever-narrowing space. Our footprints in the sand are a billion bytes on a thousand hard drives. Fodder for the snoop and the historian alike.

The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.

Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that's disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world.

great white blimp tethered to a cornfield—a surveillance balloon.

Masked policemen and masked soldiers manned checkpoints on the main road

Reading 1984 might get people thinking about it,' I said.

In an age of aerial surveillance and high-security technology, it was a blacksmith's barrier of antiquated ironmongery: old rusty ramparts running for miles, a visible example of national paranoia.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Her date was wearing a tux when he picked her up and had to live through twenty-six nuns taking photographs of them and watching them pull away in the limo with his friends.

If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joyfully, under constant surveillance, watching each other always, commenting on each other, voting and liking and disliking each other, smiling and frowning, and otherwise doing nothing much else.

Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services

PRIVACY IS THEFT

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

La vigilancia no puede ser el precio a pagar por ningún maldito servicio que recibamos.

Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

because total non-communication in a place like the circle was so difficult, it felt like violence

It was not known precisely how many labor camps there were in North Korea, although the international consensus was six. The fact that they were numbered and those numbers reached at least as high as twenty-two was an indicator of their pervasiveness. At least two hundred thousand North Koreans, or nearly one percent of the entire population, called these labor camps home.

Déjà vu Orwell's 1984

had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud of

The police, he knew, had already copied the

fifteen major intelligence agencies eating up 50 billion in budget dollars a year spread over 120,000 employees

surveillance tape we heard