"Privacy is the fountainhead of all rights. Privacy is the right to a free mind," Snowden said. "Without privacy, you can't have anything for yourself. Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say" -Edward Snowden
"The US government itself has used extreme measures to shield its actions from public view, erecting an ever-higher wall of secrecy behind which it operates" -Glenn Greenwald
"A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be" -John Oliver