Top 375 Surveillance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.
In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.
Gaza itself is subject to constant aerial surveillance by drones and is rife with informers and collaborators with Israel.
A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.
Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
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.
The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.
We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.
The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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.
The nature of the government's surveillance on me and my family is forensically proven and not subject to legitimate question.
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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.
There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.
I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.
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.
People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.
WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free?and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power.
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
A 24-hour police surveillance system will act as a deterrent for anti-social elements.
Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.
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.
If you are concerned you are the victim of illegal corporate surveillance, you should seek specialist - and independent - legal advice at once.
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.
With the growing availability of commoditized encryption, it is becoming easier for common criminals to communicate beyond the reach of traditional surveillance.
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.
The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.
Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.
U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.
I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.
Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.
