digital surveillance
Electronic eyes everywhere
Digital surveillance is the monitoring of people's activities through electronic means—tracking internet usage, reading emails, analyzing phone records, or watching through cameras.
Governments conduct digital surveillance for national security; corporations do it for marketing.
The term often carries negative connotations of privacy invasion: We live in an age of unprecedented digital surveillance.
The app's digital surveillance of users went far beyond what was disclosed.
- Big BrotherTotalitarian surveillance authority
- camerasVisual recording devices
- law enforcementUpholding legal codes
- data miningExtracting insights from datasets
- recordPreserved account or achievement
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Prolonged covert observation
direct observation · human intelligence · fieldwork · wiretapping
digital surveillancedigital privacy
Protection of online information
privacy · anonymity · going dark · digital freedom · right to be forgotten
digital surveillancedata protection
Securing sensitive information
encryption · end-to-end encryption · counter-surveillance · information security · privacy rights
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