Thomas Watson Jr. Quotes

We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.

I have been saying for a long time, all my phones are tapped.

I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.

Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

Please be advised that I cannot authorize the installation of a microphone involving a trespass under existing law.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program is about.

The NSA has thrown Silicon Valley under the bus.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

To say the U.S. government is targeting U.S. persons, to listen to their phone calls and read their emails, is just false.

To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.

I like to consider myself a detective, which is how I justify my obsession with my phone. By nature, since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a detective, and any portal to information and investigating things I have ever been given access to, I have dived into. With my phone, unfortunately, I have immediate access to everything.

I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.