We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society - ours - tended to believe that a large portion of our rights were inherent and couldn't be abrogated by governments, even if this seemed necessary.

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets" privilege, which kept organizations like the ACLU - which had cases of people who had actually been tortured and held in indefinite detention - from getting their day in court.

You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.