Quotes about surveillance
surveillance-state people credit
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it. Stephen Colbert
surveillance authority undisciplined
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy. Theodor Adorno
surveillance our-society
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance. Michel Foucault
surveillance-cameras might study
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. Evgeny Morozov
surveillance way should
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. Glenn Greenwald
surveillance participation antidote
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. Howard Rheingold