Glenn Greenwald Quotes About Privacy

Quotes about: Privacy

• Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Exercise, Privacy, Duty

  "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State". Book by Glenn Greenwald, 2014.

• There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Goal, United States

  “CNN Newsroom”, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2013.

• A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Rights, Government, Numbers

  "About the Reuters article" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2013.

• The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.

  Glenn Greenwald

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