Michel Foucault Quotes

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

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

I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.

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

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

Big Brother is watching you.

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

Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

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

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Since the first Patriot Act, as this has evolved, more and more of the privacy of Americans is disappearing. And that’s going to hurt us; it’s not going to make us safer.

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

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

The world is going to come to a place where we're all being spied on and nothing is private.

The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras in public spaces. You have no expectation of privacy in public spaces.

It’s wherever you are. If it’s tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you’re doing.” Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn’t considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? “Even in the bathroom?” the Gasman’s eyes widened with surprise.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control