Eric Schmidt Quotes

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I've been stalked.

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.

Track down license plate numbers to obtain addresses of clinic employees, then follow them to supermarkets, hotels, and other public places where they can be confronted. Snap photographs. Run video cameras. Find Social Security numbers and check financial records. Infiltrate clinics by posing as patients. Befriend a clinic worker's son, then preach to him about the sins of his mother. Dig up dirt through court and other government records. File as many lawsuits as possible.

Follow me around.... I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

Stalking can have devastating consequences, and I am determined that we do all we can to protect victims from these prolonged and terrifying campaigns of abuse that can last years, leaving many people too afraid to leave their homes and unable to get on with their lives.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars. And when I wouldn't give them my number, they'd say, "Who the hell do you think you are? You will never make it in this town. I'll make sure of it."

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months.

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re still being watched and recorded.

We've used the power that we have had to listen in to everybody so that we could better promote our agenda

I don't like the idea of people following me around.

There's not a single flashlight app that's not spying on you right now.

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.

Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.