N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

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

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

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.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

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

The NSA has thrown Silicon Valley under the bus.

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.

A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

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 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.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

I worry about any type of bulk collection. If you collect everything, how do you know that you’ve got anything

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

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

At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.

I strongly believe the Government are listening to everything we say.