Edward Snowden Quotes About Privacy

Quotes about: Privacy

• We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back.

  Edward Snowden

  Privacy, Asks

  "Surveillance and Its Discontents: A Conversation Across Cyberspace with Edward Snowden and John Perry Barlow". techpresident.com. June 12, 2014.

• Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Want, Who We Are, Matter

  Edward Snowden’s Christmas speech to the U.K., www.dailydot.com. December 25, 2013.

• I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Nsa, People

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Article by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

• Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Rights, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

• I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

  Edward Snowden

  Creativity, Intellectual, Important

  "NSA leaker comes forward, warns of agency's 'existential threat'" by Matt Smith, www.cnn.com. June 9, 2013.

• A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  "The Alternative Christmas Message 2013". TV Short, www.imdb.com. December 25, 2013.

• Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Different, Care

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

• A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Children, Growing Up, Today

  "The Alternative Christmas Message", www.imdb.com. 2013.

• Privacy is a function of liberty.

  Edward Snowden

  Liberty, Privacy, Function

  Interview With Alan Rusbridger, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2014.

• I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, People, Understanding

  "Privacy Board To Scrutinize Surveillance Programs". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 9, 2013.

• Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

  Edward Snowden

  Sacrifice, Surveillance State, Talking

  "Ex-CIA Worker Edward Snowden Says He Leaked Surveillance Data" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. June 10, 2013.

• I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

  Edward Snowden

  Liberty, Facts, Arguing

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

• [Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. Only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. The idea was to find a kind of a compromise between [privacy rights and] the assertion that if you don't collect things as they happen, you won't have them later - because what the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Ideas, Keys

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