electronic surveillance
Covert tech spying
Electronic surveillance is the monitoring of people, places, or communications using electronic devices—wiretaps, hidden cameras, GPS trackers, computer monitoring software.
Law enforcement conducts electronic surveillance under court order; intelligence agencies operate under broader authority.
The term also covers commercial tracking: Consumers increasingly object to electronic surveillance by advertisers.
The practice raises persistent questions about privacy and civil liberties.
- keyloggersSoftware recording typed input
- spywareHidden surveillance program
- corporate securitySafeguarding organizational assets and personnel
- data privacy lawsStatutes governing personal information collection
- Patriot ActCounterterrorism surveillance legislation
counterterrorism · privacy rights · VPNs · wiretapping · phone tapping · Snowden · FISA · workplace monitoring · national security · whistleblower protections · civil liberties · drones · border control · military reconnaissance · cyber espionage · intelligence gathering · NSA · CCTV
- NSANSA, signals intelligence, SIGINT, cryptanalysis, codebreaking
- surveillanceCCTV, security camera, spy, spying, spy cam
- wiretappingwiretap, wiretapping, wiretaps, phone tapping, phone taps
- surveillance lawwiretap, FISA, phone tap, eavesdropping, intercept
- data privacydata privacy, GDPR, personal data, data protection, de-identification
- Spycraftspy, agent, asset, covert, handler
electronic surveillanceprivacy
Freedom from observation
digital privacy · anonymity · communication privacy · data protection · encryption
electronic surveillanceopen communication
Unrestricted exchange of information