Surveillance Quotes - Page 5

• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Data, Police

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• Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

  Howard Rheingold

  Participation, Openness, Antidote

  "Howard Rheingold about our mobile world". Interview with Roland Piquepaille, www.zdnet.com. July 20, 2006.

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• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

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• Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with documents!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you failing to laugh with childlike wonder, they lock you inside a costume representing a beloved Disney character such as Goofy and make you walk about in the Florida heat getting grabbed and leaped on by violently excited children until you have learned your lesson.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Possibility, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Population, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What we need to do, is restore those tools that have been taken away by the president [Barack Obama] and others, restore those tools to the NSA and to our entire surveillance and law enforcement community.

  Chris Christie

  Taken, Law, Nsa

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

  Cate Marvin

  Book, Track, World

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I have used mass surveillance to target people, so I do know how it works.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Target, Used

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

  Eric Schmidt

  Years, Judgement, Our Society

  "Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is 'the nature of our society'" by Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2013.

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• As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

  Chris Van Hollen

  War, Tools, Calling

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• Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Keys, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Roles, Care

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

  Edward Snowden

  Squares, Majority, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Essentials, Disease, International

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• With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Team, Moving

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Cells, Majority

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.

  Molly Antopol

  Character, Fighting, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

  Belle Boyd

  Military, Jolly

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.382

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• I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Thinking, Data

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this, we need the latest technology applied to large pelagic fish and sharks, surveillance technology that helps protect marine protected areas, and tags that help prevent shark finning and illegal fishing. We must use modern sensors to help protect our seas!

  Barbara Block

  Ocean, Marine, Technology

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• We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Sight, Departure

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

  Edward Snowden

  Agency, Needs, National Security

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Important, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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