Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion.
- noun The act of observing or the condition of being observed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Oversight; superintendence; supervision; watch; spying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Close observation of anindividual orgroup ; person or persons undersuspicion . - noun
Continuous monitoring ofdisease occurrence for example. - noun military, espionage
Systematic observation ofplaces andpeople byvisual ,aural ,electronic ,photographic or other means. - noun law In
criminal law, aninvestigation process by whichpolice gatherevidence aboutcrimes , or suspected crime, through continuedobservation of persons or places.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
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Examples
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Google acted over dissident fears - Google realised dissidents were at risk from attempts to use company's technology for surveillance, say sources Google moved quickly to announce that it would stop censoring its Chinese service after realising dissidents were at risk from attempts to use the company's technology for political surveillance, according to a source with direct ...
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Balkin rejects the term surveillance, and breaks the term down into the collection of information (which is possible via many different means), the collation of information
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We feel that careful monitoring, what we call surveillance, looking for new diseases as they crop up anywhere in the world affects us anywhere else in the world.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Diseases That May Come and Go - January 1, 2000 2000
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After moving, her family were periodically placed under what she described as surveillance.
The Guardian World News James Robinson 2011
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Defenders of online tracking argue that this kind of surveillance is benign because it is conducted anonymously.
Facebook in Privacy Breach Emily Steel 2010
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The word "surveillance" is in NEITHER Article I nor II -- consider it in the penumbra of "Commander in Chief" if that helps -- unless you are going to claim that no one in the U.S. government can legally spy on the enemy during wartime?!
Balkinization 2007
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Charles writes: The word "surveillance" is in NEITHER Article I nor II --
Balkinization 2007
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The word "surveillance" is in NEITHER Article I nor II -- consider it in the penumbra of "Commander in Chief" if that helps -- unless you are going to claim that no one in the U.S. government can legally spy on the enemy during wartime?!
Balkinization 2007
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The word "surveillance" is in NEITHER Article I nor II -- consider it in the penumbra of "Commander in Chief" if that helps -- unless you are going to claim that no one in the U.S. government can legally spy on the enemy during wartime?!
Balkinization 2007
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Charles writes: The word "surveillance" is in NEITHER Article I nor II --
Balkinization 2007
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Some wearers are propelled by the desire to opt out of what has been called “surveillance capitalism” — an economy that churns human experiences into data for profit — while others fear government invasion of privacy.
Special sunglasses, license-plate dresses, Juggalo face paint: How to be anonymous in the age of surveillance Melissa Hellmann 2020
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The latest version of this critique comes in the form of “surveillance capitalism,” a term coined by business professor Shoshana Zuboff in her long and influential 2019 book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ Cory Doctorow 2021
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Given the growing power of those algorithms, I wanted to find more about what Shoshana Zuboff calls “surveillance capitalism” – the myriad ways in which the “internet of things” and social media are selling our private lives to advertisers.
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez – a world designed for men Eliane Glaser 2019
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Recent media reports indicate that a growing number of grocery stores[1] and retailers may be using algorithms to establish targeted prices.[2] Advancements in machine learning make it cheaper for these systems to collect and process large volumes of personal data, which can open the door for price changes based on information like your precise location, your shopping habits, or your web browsing history.This means that consumers may now be subjected to surveillance pricing when they shop for anything, big or small, online or in person: a house, a car, even their weekly groceries.
Behind the FTC’s Inquiry into Surveillance Pricing Practices Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024
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Many of Google’s products besides search, from YouTube to Maps, collect data on users, which enables personalisation of your ads – this model is the foundational example of what technology commentator Shoshana Zuboff has called “surveillance capitalism”.
‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken? Tom Faber 2024
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The Federal Trade Commission issued orders to eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers’ characteristics and behavior. The orders seek information about the potential impact these practices have on privacy, competition, and consumer protection.The orders are aimed at helping the FTC better understand the opaque market for products by third-party intermediaries that claim to use advanced algorithms, artificial intelligence and other technologies, along with personal information about consumers—such as their location, demographics, credit history, and browsing or shopping history—to categorize individuals and set a targeted price for a product or service. The study is aimed at helping the FTC better understand how surveillance pricing is affecting consumers, especially when the pricing is based on surveillance of an individual’s personal characteristics and behavior.
FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024
edwardvielmetti commented on the word surveillance
see panopticon, panspectron
September 17, 2007