Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.
(n.) Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may...
Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.
Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping ma...
Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from govern
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.
There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the should...
Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it seemed a magnanimous gesture to most of the delegates. But the real reason was to better enable the...
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the funct...
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
And when they spy on us let them discover us loving
Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
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 most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.
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