Carolina QuotesThe 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 don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... 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 Carolinian
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"Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'" The Guardian (June 10, 2013).
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We have to raise our expectations for the centers of power in society if we want to have a fairer society.
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The United States is probably the only advanced democracy in the world that does not have a basic privacy law.