What is right is not always the same as what is legal Edward Snowden More Quotes by Edward Snowden More Quotes From Edward Snowden Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures. Edward Snowden governmentrightspeople Nobody's going to vote for Isis. Edward Snowden isisvote Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end. Edward Snowden nsaabuseopportunity To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so. Edward Snowden nsacommunicationgovernment I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians. Edward Snowden nsacommunicationbelieve We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications. Edward Snowden publicitylevelscommunication They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them. Edward Snowden government-spyingbehaviorworld After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. Edward Snowden nsagovernmentresponsibility We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. Edward Snowden nsaartthinking I was living a charmed life. Edward Snowden charmedcharmed-life Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers. Edward Snowden nsauselaw Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain. Edward Snowden nsaphonesrights One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance. Edward Snowden nsadivisionlaw For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good. Edward Snowden careerspeopleschool 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. Edward Snowden government-spyingnsasupport The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real. Edward Snowden actingrealbelieve Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. Edward Snowden government-spyingifs Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good. Edward Snowden impactgovernmentworld By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things. Edward Snowden loseslinesideas You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much. Edward Snowden agencysacrificegovernment
