John Twelve Hawks - Surveillance Quotes

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Gradually, I realized that the surveillance cameras plus the email and cell phone monitoring was creating a Virtual Panopticon – a digital prison created and maintained by computer networks that enclosed all of us within its invisible walls.

John Twelve Hawks
One cliché endlessly offered up by the people supporting government surveillance is that there needs to be a trade-off between security and privacy. But this is a trade that goes only one way. It's clear that we've lost control over what personal information is public and what we prefer to keep private. The new reality is that they see us, but we can't see them.

John Twelve Hawks
These days, I live on the grid – primarily because of medical issues. But I think that it would be hypocritical for a writer to condemn our surveillance culture and then appear on the Charlie Rose show to blather about personal details. Focusing on a writer's life undermines the power of that writer's ideas.

John Twelve Hawks
The first icon of the 21st Century is the closed-circuit surveillance camera, slowly panning back and forth as we move beneath its gaze.

John Twelve Hawks
Any monitoring system that is invisible, pervasive, automatic, and permanent gives those in power the means to create a modern surveillance state. And these new states will have an authority that has detached itself from ethics and ideology. Politicians and dictators will continue to make speeches, but their words will become meaningless. This new system will see and know us. It will even predict our future behavior.

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