Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting p — Surveillance

"The monitor gone. Ender tried to imagine the little device missing from the back of his neck. Ill roll over on my back in bed and it wont be pressing there, I wont feel it tingling and taking up the heat when I shower."

"China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities."

"CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance. However, using the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), it is possible to use local examples to understand the wider trend."

"There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return."

"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."

"Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape."