Alex Lawther Quotes

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

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

Surveillance is just getting too easy right now. And this is only because of technology..

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

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

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

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

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Internet privacy is dwindling. Every purchase you make, flight you take, website you view, file you download, person you call, and e-mail you send is tracked. … and then stored indefinitely and often sold to the highest bidder—whoever that may be. Personal data, long thought to be confidential simply isn’t anymore.

The evidence does not support the proposition that there is a significant measure of safety that is added as a result of collecting all these records on law abiding Americans.

Google, Facebook, and the thousands of other companies that seek to join their ranks do more every day to collect data about you and I than any surveillance state could ever accomplish. They track our behavior, our communications. The moment to moment decisions we make in every room of our house

The National Security Agency vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from or within the United States.

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

To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.