Hasan M. Elahi Quotes
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Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.
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Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.
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The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.
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You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.
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I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.
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We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.
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If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.
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We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.
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It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.
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Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.
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How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.
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It's really weird watching the government watch me.
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I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
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You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.