Mass surveillance
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"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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Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof.
Mass surveillance has been widely criticized on several grounds such as violations of privacy rights, illegality, and for preventing political and social freedoms, which some fear will ultimately lead to a totalitarian state where political dissent is crushed by COINTELPRO-like programs. Such a state may also be referred to as an Electronic Police State.
See also
- Discipline and Punish
- Carnivore, FBI US digital interception program
- COINTELPRO
- Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
- Computer surveillance
- Criticisms of the War on Terrorism
- Data privacy
- Data retention
- Government databases
- ECHELON
- Information Awareness Office
- Lawful interception
- Mastering the Internet
- Network analysis
- Narus: supplier of SIGINT system, NarusInsight, referred to in Hepting vs. AT&T
- National security
- NSA call database
- Pen register
- Phone surveillance
- Police state
- RFID tagging
- Right to privacy
- Security culture
- SIGINT
- Sousveillance
- Surveillance state
- Traffic analysis
- Tracking system
- Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc
- USA PATRIOT Act