Digital Monitoring Quotes

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

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

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.

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out.

If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.

In addition to closed-circuit TV systems and the ability to track cellphone and computer users, advanced biometric identification systems and online coordination across borders are becoming more and more widespread.

We can watch every time someone looks at a profile. Do they choose to send that person a message? We can look at every message that's sent, and we can determine, was that message replied to or not.

When you put a camera in your kid's bedroom, you're literally inviting the entire connected world, the entire Internet into your child's safe space, if you will.

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

My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

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

Your credit card, your inbox, your Hotmail.com are not particularly secure. We are being watched; it's just a part of life.

If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

Parents do not know what their kids are doing.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

My dad and my brother have Google alerts out on me.

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.

I think it's just so important that parents actually really study the apps on the phones and figure out what's going on.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister controls my Instagram, and my big brother controls my Twitter. I also don't really Google myself or anything like that.

Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different. The data broker industry doesn't see it that way. To them, even the act of walking down the street is a legitimate data set to be captured, catalogued, and exploited.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.