Howard Rheingold Quotes

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

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

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

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the world.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

As a rule, governments monitor people.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

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.

There is growing use of government intrusion into your creative space…. The government is able to see more deeply into our intellectual lives.

The NSA has thrown Silicon Valley under the bus.

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

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.