Surveillance Quotes

Surveillance Quote of the day

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

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

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

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.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

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

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.