BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 1. Caption to Ingsoc poster. Big Brother sees and controls everything. Omnipresent and omnipotent, he is the infallible leader to the citizens of Oceania and their God.
You can’t assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. – Howard Rheingold
The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera. – Hasan M. Elahi
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. – Andrew Vachss
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale. – Barton Gellman
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it’s hard to know how to avoid it. – Nick Harkaway
Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it’s only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%. – Edward Snowden
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. – Edward Snowden
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease. – Daniel Akaka
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. – Edward Snowden
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. – Jonathan Turley
There’s still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance. – Michael Hayden
Dr. Esserman, who directs the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, is one of only a few surgeons in the United States willing to put women with D.C.I.S. on active surveillance instead of performing biopsies, lumpectomies or mastectomies. – Katie Hafner
Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn’t be significantly expanded to a certain degree. – Otto Schily
