I don't believe there is a trade-off between privacy and security; I think they go together, if you have a society which evades and abuses privacy, then ultimately there will be a reaction against the damage to your security. Edward Snowden More Quotes by Edward Snowden More Quotes From Edward Snowden If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants. Edward Snowden dataattachmentamerica While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice - that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. Edward Snowden nsagovernmentlaw The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there's a probable cause for that infringement of our rights. Edward Snowden causesrightsfirsts Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy. Edward Snowden governmentrightsopposites What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected. Edward Snowden weaknesslibertycommunication We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. Edward Snowden subjectscitizensleader Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet. Edward Snowden makeupinternetsea We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them. Edward Snowden ableanswersorder There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and Edward Snowden importantnumberscountry Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. Edward Snowden girlfriendmedialooks The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses. Edward Snowden governmentprincipleshurt A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. Edward Snowden growing-upmeanchildren The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to. Edward Snowden grantedgovernmentpeople You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer. Edward Snowden government-spyingdecisionfall I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. Edward Snowden spotlightspyadults I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American. Edward Snowden nsatraitorhero There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency. Edward Snowden nsagovernmentoffice For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. Edward Snowden wanttryinggiving At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done. Edward Snowden genuine-concerninformationgovernment That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously. We only have the rights that we protect. It doesn't matter what we say or think we have. It's not enough to believe in something; it matters what we actually defend. Edward Snowden gardenbelievethinking
