Your Data Will Be Used Against You Quotes

“There is no reason why surveillance data must be retained, or accessible by anyone but the user. Technology must pass what I call “the tyrant test,” and if it fails, it should not be sold or used.27”
― Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance

“Digital policing is a godsend for authoritarianism, and in an era where federal and local policing has been weaponized for partisan purposes, the threat of targeted surveillance is all too real. Every perceived political enemy is vulnerable to digital exposure.”
― Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance