SURVEILLANCE

Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, or interception of electronically transmitted information ; and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception. The word surveillance comes from a French phrase for "watching over", and is in contrast to more recent developments such as sousveillance.

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surveillance

Noun

  1. Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
  2. Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
  3. Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
  4. In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.


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