Caterina Fake: It's an incredible amount of data.
Bruce Schneier: More is coming.
Thomas Powers: Is more what we really need?
Decius: We need to balance privacy interests with the state's interest in monitoring suspected criminals.
Cory Doctorow: I am enough of a techno-pessimist to believe that baking surveillance, control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hell.
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure.
Ryan Singel: Google unveiled a Government Requests Tool that shows the public how often individual governments around the world have asked for user information, and how often they've asked Google to remove content from their sites or search index, for reasons other than copyright violation. The numbers reflect only criminal investigations, and do not include national security investigation powers such as National Security Lettters or FISA warrants, which companies are often not legally allowed to disclose.
Matt Higgins: The nice thing is, it's not a free for all. We're taking care of the problem responsibly. We're targeting the troublemakers, and we're hoping the troublemakers will be gone someday.
Decius: What you tell Google you've told the government.
Eric Schmidt: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
David Lynch: So many things these days are made to look at later. Why not just have the experience and remember it?
Ellis: All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
Libby Purves: There is a thrill in switching off the mobile, taking the bus to somewhere without CCTV and paying cash for your tea. You and your innocence can spend an afternoon alone together, unseen by officialdom.
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