Scott McNealy Quotes

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

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

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

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

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

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

I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

I think I need security.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I don't plan on ever letting my daughters date. I'm going to try to do everything I can to prevent it. You know, it just terrifies me. It just terrifies me.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%.

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.