Edward Snowden Quotes

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that

In this era of massive online connectivity, the majority of privacy breaches and data leaks remain unknown, unchallenged, and unregulated. Regulatory compliance alone cannot ensure privacy.

With the evolution of information technology, there have emerged new questions, for example, of data and privacy.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society.

Washington faces a simple choice: allow the Internet to remain as an engine of innovation, a platform for speech in even the harshest tyrannies, and a unified connection for people across the globe—or cede control of the Internet to service providers motivated by their parochial interests.

The problem of end-to-end encryption isn't just a terrorism issue.

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They thought the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to empower anyone to police it.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.