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Surveillance

Monitoring something for the purposes of influencing, protecting, or suppressing it

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Surveillance is the systematic observation and monitoring of a person, population, or location, with the purpose of information-gathering, influencing, managing, or directing. It is widely used by governments for a variety of reasons, such as law enforcement, national security, and information awareness. It can also be used as a tactic by persons who are not working on behalf of a government, such as by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes, and by businesses to gather intelligence on criminals, their competitors, suppliers or customers.

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🇺🇸 This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won't Work (2026-03-06)
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🇺🇸 Are Multimodal LLMs Ready for Surveillance? A Reality Check on Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection in the Wild (2026-03-06)
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🇺🇸 Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others? (2026-02-19)
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🇺🇸 Privacy activists call on California to remove covert license plate readers (2026-02-11)
More than two dozen privacy groups are urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to remove covert license plate readers in southern California...

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