# Edward Snowden - Permanent Record (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51z1ZaEn6sL._SL200_.jpg **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Edward Snowden]] **Full Title**:: Permanent Record **Category**:: #books #readwise/books **Category Icon**:: 📚 **Highlighted**:: [[2021-01-24]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - There is no turning back, only going forward ([Location 358](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=358)) - Life only scrolls in one direction, ([Location 359](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=359)) - You should always let people underestimate you. ([Location 870](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=870)) - We can’t erase the things that shame us, or the ways we’ve shamed ourselves, online. ([Location 1421](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=1421)) - All we can do is control our reactions—whether we let the past oppress us, or accept its lessons, grow, and move on. ([Location 1421](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=1421)) - something that is devastating for the public can be, and often is, beneficial to the elites. ([Location 2338](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=2338)) - If government surveillance was having the effect of turning the citizen into a subject, at the mercy of state power, then corporate surveillance was turning the consumer into a product, ([Location 2782](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=2782)) - Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. ([Location 3017](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=3017)) - “Technology is moving faster than government or law can keep up. It’s moving faster ([Location 3579](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=3579)) - you should be asking the question of what are your rights and who owns your data.” ([Location 3580](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07STQPGH6&location=3580))