Surveillance
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"On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran."--Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell |
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Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV), or interception of electronically transmitted information, such as Internet traffic. It can also include simple technical methods, such as human intelligence gathering and postal interception.
Wiktionary
- Close observation of an individual or group, especially one under suspicion
- Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example
- military:Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
- law:In Criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
See also
- Big Brother
- Sousveillance (inverse surveillance)
- COINTELPRO
- Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
- Hepting v. AT&T
- Heterogeneous Aerial Reconnaissance Team
- Mass surveillance
- NSA warrantless surveillance
- Panopticon
- Signals intelligence
- Surveillance art
- Surveillance system monitor
