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Surveillance

Surveillance is the systematic observation and monitoring of a person, population, or location, with the purpose of information-gathering, influencing, managing, or directing.

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Countersurveillance, inverse surveillance, sousveillance

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Surveillance

Nodes278
Edges277
Triples561
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007194
Components1

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Surveillance

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related to Further reading · 180
Surveillance → Age, Akhlaque, AL, Alabama Press, Allmer, America From Slavery, America's Surveillance State, An Overview, Analytics, Anders Albrechtslund, Armand, Associates, Austin, Basic Books, Being Watched, Beyond, Blackness, CA, Calif, Cambridge
related to General information · 41
Surveillance → ACLU, American Government Is Conscripting, August, Balkin, Businesses, Construction, Control, Delmas-Marty, Didier, Dozens, EFF Privacy ResourcesEPIC Privacy, Fear, February, How, Individuals, Information Commissioner, Jack, July, June, London
related to Onscreen · 39
Surveillance → American, Audio, British, DiMeo Crime Family, Dream, East Berlin, Enemy, FBI's, Funhouse, Gattaca, GDR's, HBO's, In, James McTeigue, Jeannie Cusamano, Livushka, Long Term Parking, Members Only, Minority Report, Mr
related to In literature · 29
Surveillance → Alan MooreDavid Egger's, Bailey, Because, British, By, Christian, Completion, Dragon Tattoo, Eamon Bailey, Eggers, George Orwell's, He, However, In, Lisbeth Salander, Negative, Nineteen Eighty-Four, One, Orwellian, See-Change
related to Opposition · 18
Surveillance → ADVISE, Also, American Civil Liberties Union, As, AT, Communications Assistance, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fears, For, Further, Hepting, Law Enforcement Act, Many, Other, Some, Total Information Awareness, Whistleblowers, With
related to Computer · 16
Surveillance → Billions, Carnivore, Communications Assistance For Law, ECHELON, Enforcement Act, FBI, In, Information Awareness Office, Internet, NarusInsight, NSA, The, There, Therefore, This, United States
related to Social network analysis · 16
Surveillance → Agency, DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects, Department, DHS, Facebook, Homeland Security, Many, MySpace, National Security Agency, NSA, One, The, These, To, Twitter
related to Countersurveillance, inverse surveillance, sousveillance · 15
Surveillance → Copwatch, Counter-surveillance, Countersurveillance, Developments, George Holliday's, Internet, Inverse, It, Monero, Other, Rodney King, Signal, UAVs, Well-known, ZCash
related to Cameras · 14
Surveillance → About, As, Asia, Cameras, CCTV, China, HumanID, In, IP, The, They, Video, VIRAT, With
related to Biometric · 12
Surveillance → Biometric, Both, DARPA, Department, Distance, DNA, Examples, Facial, Homeland Security, Human Identification, Office, The Information Processing Technology

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data information used isbn privacy cameras people government also phone law security use human intelligence social person internet united police

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Surveillanceis asystematic observation and monitoring of a person0.90text
Surveillanceis atechnology that measures and analyzes human physical and/or behavioral characteristics for authentication0.90text
Surveillanceis agathering of surveillance0.90text
Surveillanceis amonitoring of a person or group's behavior by a corporation0.90text
Surveillanceis astrong concern0.90text
Surveillanceis autilization of the internet to observe one's activity0.90text
Surveillanceis apractice of the reversal of surveillance on other individuals or groups0.90text
Carnivoreinstance ofand operate systems0.80text
NarusInsightinstance ofand operate systems0.80text
and ECHELON to interceptinstance ofand operate systems0.80text
analyze all of this data to extract only the information which is useful to law enforcementinstance ofand operate systems0.80text
intelligence agencies.Computers can be a surveillance target because of the personal data stored on theminstance ofand operate systems0.80text

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