Quotes by Barton Gellman

About Barton Gellman:

Barton David Gellman is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning reports on the September 11 attacks, on Dick Cheney's powerful vice presidency and on the global surveillance disclosure.
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Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they k...

Barton Gellman

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.

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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

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The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

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Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

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Nothing is absolute in security.

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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

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True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

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Author Bio

  • NameBarton Gellman
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • Born1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsGeorge Polk Award