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

One of the reasons that I came forward and sort burned of my life to the ground, and I can't go back and see my family in the United States - I obviously lost my job, which I was quite comfortable with. I lost my home. It was because I felt there was no alternative.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

If we don't do anything, if we go along with the status quo, we are going to have a mass surveillance world.

When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.