In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
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.
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.
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.
Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.
What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS. " No! Let's get rid of the SS!
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.
We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
As a result of the Stratfor hack, some of the dangers of the unregulated private intelligence industry are now known. It has been revealed through Wikileaks and other journalists around the world that Stratfor maintained a worldwide network of informants that they used to engage in intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations.
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.
You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.
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.