Surveillance
noun
The act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime.
The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance cameras
Often appears as...
- under surveillance
- surveillance camera
noun
Close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective).
The detective kept the suspect under constant surveillance
Often appears as...
- under surveillance
- surveillance operation
noun
Continuous observation of a place, person, group, or ongoing activity in order to gather information.
Military surveillance of the enemy positions
Often appears as...
- surveillance aircraft
- surveillance radar
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Close and continuous monitoring of a person's health for the purpose of identifying changes in disease patterns.
Health surveillance is important for monitoring diseases like cancer
Often appears as...
- health surveillance
- surveillance systems in healthcare
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime.
The bank robbery was recorded by surveillance cameras
Often appears as...
- under surveillance
- surveillance camera
noun
Close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective).
The detective kept the suspect under constant surveillance
Often appears as...
- under surveillance
- surveillance operation
noun
Continuous observation of a place, person, group, or ongoing activity in order to gather information.
Military surveillance of the enemy positions
Often appears as...
- surveillance aircraft
- surveillance radar
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Close and continuous monitoring of a person's health for the purpose of identifying changes in disease patterns.
Health surveillance is important for monitoring diseases like cancer
Often appears as...
- health surveillance
- surveillance systems in healthcare
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Prevention
Surveillance is used to deter crime by making people feel they're being watched.
The presence of surveillance cameras can make thieves think twice.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Surveillance can be covert, meaning you might not see cameras or guards.
Hidden surveillance devices could be listening in.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Spaces
Surveillance is common in areas with higher security needs like airports.
You are under surveillance when you pass through airport security.
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Prevention
Surveillance is used to deter crime by making people feel they're being watched.
The presence of surveillance cameras can make thieves think twice.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Surveillance can be covert, meaning you might not see cameras or guards.
Hidden surveillance devices could be listening in.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Spaces
Surveillance is common in areas with higher security needs like airports.
You are under surveillance when you pass through airport security.
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Prevention
Surveillance is used to deter crime by making people feel they're being watched.
The presence of surveillance cameras can make thieves think twice.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Surveillance can be covert, meaning you might not see cameras or guards.
Hidden surveillance devices could be listening in.
Pro Tip 3/3Public Spaces
Surveillance is common in areas with higher security needs like airports.
You are under surveillance when you pass through airport security.
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Illegal Marijuana Farms...
So from the time that we detect the site What we'll do at that point is we'll begin investigating and starting to try identifying who's doing it through surveillance Get as much Intel as we can on them before we actually come in and do the raid Yeah, they're turning left here. And then the drop points right underneath the powerlines. Yeah those reference
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Inside the massive (and...
Why? Well, because though night-vision goggles are used today by scientists and hunters around the world, it was a capability first developed for the military. And yet, tools of surveillance that an authoritarian regime could use to spy on its own citizens, on dissidents, on journalists,
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How to Avoid Surveillance...
or the terrorists' telephone calls can be intercepted, then so can the rest of ours, too. And I think we really need to Should a billion people around the world be using devices that are wiretap friendly? So the scenario of hacking of surveillance systems that I've described --
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Elephants Being...
Mountain Bull's route home will take him straight through the farms and settlements in the valley. That will almost certainly mean conflict between humans and elephants. By keeping him under close surveillance, the team are hoping to find ways of helping him.
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What you need to know...
encryption software. All of these technologies simultaneously protect our privacy and our safety. Dragnet surveillance, on the other hand, protects neither. In recent years, the federal government tasked a group of experts
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Good news about...
encourage digital surveillance systems NGOs going out there trolling trying new experiments I'm sure I can't prove it but I'm sure that that's one of the major reasons why we're fighting diseases so much sooner and I'm
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How does your immune...
Its actual job is to stop a threat from escalating to dangerous levels inside your body. And through constant surveillance over time, the immune system provides another it helps us develop long-term immunity.
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Injured Elephant Calf...
settlements in the valley that will almost certainly mean conflict between humans and elephants by keeping him under close surveillance the team are hoping to find ways of helping him
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The Shift We Need to...
I know we can push back that looming dystopia. I know we can protect everything that technology might make possible tomorrow, but only if we ban surveillance abuses today. Thank you.
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Your smartphone is a...
to protect them from that surveillance. This is a problem. We must remember that surveillance is a tool. It's a tool used by those in power against those who have no power.
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Illegal Marijuana Farms...
So from the time that we detect the site What we'll do at that point is we'll begin investigating and starting to try identifying who's doing it through surveillance Get as much Intel as we can on them before we actually come in and do the raid Yeah, they're turning left here. And then the drop points right underneath the powerlines. Yeah those reference
Video examples
Inside the massive (and...
Why? Well, because though night-vision goggles are used today by scientists and hunters around the world, it was a capability first developed for the military. And yet, tools of surveillance that an authoritarian regime could use to spy on its own citizens, on dissidents, on journalists,
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How to Avoid Surveillance...
or the terrorists' telephone calls can be intercepted, then so can the rest of ours, too. And I think we really need to Should a billion people around the world be using devices that are wiretap friendly? So the scenario of hacking of surveillance systems that I've described --
Video examples
Elephants Being...
Mountain Bull's route home will take him straight through the farms and settlements in the valley. That will almost certainly mean conflict between humans and elephants. By keeping him under close surveillance, the team are hoping to find ways of helping him.
Video examples
What you need to know...
encryption software. All of these technologies simultaneously protect our privacy and our safety. Dragnet surveillance, on the other hand, protects neither. In recent years, the federal government tasked a group of experts
Video examples
Good news about...
encourage digital surveillance systems NGOs going out there trolling trying new experiments I'm sure I can't prove it but I'm sure that that's one of the major reasons why we're fighting diseases so much sooner and I'm
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How does your immune...
Its actual job is to stop a threat from escalating to dangerous levels inside your body. And through constant surveillance over time, the immune system provides another it helps us develop long-term immunity.
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Injured Elephant Calf...
settlements in the valley that will almost certainly mean conflict between humans and elephants by keeping him under close surveillance the team are hoping to find ways of helping him
Video examples
The Shift We Need to...
I know we can push back that looming dystopia. I know we can protect everything that technology might make possible tomorrow, but only if we ban surveillance abuses today. Thank you.
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Your smartphone is a...
to protect them from that surveillance. This is a problem. We must remember that surveillance is a tool. It's a tool used by those in power against those who have no power.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
I'm a woman in technology, I think that we have to consider our border and use the technology we have to be sure that we secure it. If you build a six foot wall, somebody may jump eight feet. But, maybe there's surveillance... there's many high tech things that we can use to be sure we are protecting our borders.
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Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
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Rosa DeLauro
American Politician
The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.
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Edward Snowden
American Activist
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
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John Perry Barlow
American Writer
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
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Ivica Dacic
Serbian Politician
I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.
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Miranda Lambert
American Musician
I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
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Trevor Paglen
American Artist
We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.
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Pavel Durov
Russian Businessman
One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.
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Richard Stallman
Scientist
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
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Jacky Rosen
American Politician
I'm a woman in technology, I think that we have to consider our border and use the technology we have to be sure that we secure it. If you build a six foot wall, somebody may jump eight feet. But, maybe there's surveillance... there's many high tech things that we can use to be sure we are protecting our borders.
Quote examples
Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
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Rosa DeLauro
American Politician
The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.
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Edward Snowden
American Activist
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
Quote examples
John Perry Barlow
American Writer
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
Quote examples
Ivica Dacic
Serbian Politician
I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.
Quote examples
Miranda Lambert
American Musician
I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
Quote examples
Trevor Paglen
American Artist
We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.
Quote examples
Pavel Durov
Russian Businessman
One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.
Quote examples
Richard Stallman
Scientist
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
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