100+ Government Spying Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

source: "Starting Point With Soledad O'brien" with Christine Romans, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

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We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

topic: Next Week, Long, Government Spying

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations" by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

topic: Government Spying, World, Behavior

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations" by lenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

topic: Night, Government Spying, Able

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Nsa, Support, Government Spying

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking", www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

topic: Suffering, Government Spying, Information

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

- George Orwell

topic: Time, Freedom, Imagination, Looking To The Future, Big Government

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Government, People, Granted, Latitude, Oversight

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Powerful, Agency, Risk, Intelligence Agencies, Government Spying

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Communication, Phones, Nsa, Passwords, Government Spying

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Creativity, Intellectual, World, Government Spying

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Who I Am, Done, Hiding, Government Spying

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden hailed as hero, accused of treason - as it happened". www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Greatest Fear, Nsa, America, Disclosure, Government Spying

You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Fall, Decision, Use, Innocent Life, Scrutinize

The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Fighting, Years, Nsa, Disclosure, Government Spying

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Government, People, Intimidating, Government Spying

I do not expect to see home again.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Home, Government Spying

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Government, Media, Political, Political Debates, Government Spying

I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, June 10, 2013.

topic: Believe, Communication, Nsa, Government Spying

To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.

- Edward Snowden

source: "• Edward Snowden Interview Transcript FULL TEXT: Read the Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM" by Gabriel Rodriguez, mic.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Communication, Government, Nsa, Government Spying

I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Law, Secret, Executive Power, Federation, Government Spying

The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Country, Government, People, Government Spying

I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Believe, Way, Danger, Documents, Government Spying

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Government, Nsa, People, Internet Freedom, Government Spying

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Country, Numbers, Important, Documents, Government Spying

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Nsa, Infrastructure, Passwords, Government Spying

Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President

- Edward Snowden

topic: Judging, President, Target, Federal Judges, Government Spying

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Ex-CIA Worker Edward Snowden Says He Leaked Surveillance Data" by Anugrah Kumar, www.christianpost.com. June 10, 2013.

topic: Sacrifice, Surveillance State, Talking, Government Spying

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Leader, Firsts, I Realized, Government Spying

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.