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What distinguished whistleblowers from their peers vas intolerance of belief without action.

The government can watch us in retrospect as easily as if it had tracked us in real time. That is something entirely new, impossible until it had access to metadata in sufficient volume.

In all of human history, until right now, the tools of our spiecies could not have accomplished surveillance on this scale. Digital technology made it possible. The government made it real, and never asked the public for consent.

I could pay in cash for Google services, rather than agree to be spied on.

Information is the oxygen of control. Secrecy and surveillance, intertwined, define its flows.

Metadata absolutly tells you everything about somebodys life... if you have enough metadata, you dont really need content. ...We kill people based on metadata... but that`s not what we do with this metadata. (Uttalelse fra Stewart Baker, rådgiver for NSA.)