Surveillance

Surveillance is "the systematic investigation or monitoring of the actions or communications of one or more persons. Its primary purpose is generally to collect information about them, their activities, or their associates. There may be a secondary intention to deter a whole population from undertaking some kinds of activity." 

"Surveillance is one of the elements of tyranny," writes Roger A. Clarke. "The word conjures up unpleasant visions of spies, repression of individuals, and suppression of ideas. Nevertheless, some classes of people, at least when they undertake some classes of activity, are deemed by society to warrant surveillance. Few would contest that people reasonably suspected of terrorism and organized, violent crime are candidates for surveillance." 

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Big Brother
 * Carnivore
 * civil liberties
 * Computer Assisted Passenger PreScreening System II
 * dangerous technology
 * data mining
 * digital surveillance
 * ECHELON
 * Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
 * Fortress America
 * Freedom of Information Act
 * Genetic surveillance
 * homeland defense
 * homeland security
 * Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
 * internet surveillance
 * Invisibility research
 * LexisNexis
 * Magic Lantern
 * Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange Program
 * National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2005
 * National Security Surveillance Act of 2006
 * Novel Intelligence from Massive Data
 * Passenger Name Record
 * Patriot Act I headlines
 * Patriot Act II
 * Patriot Act abuses
 * Patriot Act industry
 * personal surveillance
 * private security consultants
 * psyops
 * small-town video surveillance
 * Surveillance-industrial complex
 * suspicious transactions
 * TALON
 * Terrorist Screening Center
 * Terrorist Threat Integration Center
 * Total Information Awareness
 * US-VISIT

External articles

 * Nathan Allonby, "ID Cards - a World View", Global Research, August 31, 2009.
 * Owen Bowcott and Paul Lewis, "Unmanned drones may be used in police surveillance", Guardian, September 24, 2010.
 * Paul Lewis, "CCTV aimed at Muslim areas in Birmingham to be dismantled", Guardian, October 25, 2010.

External resources

 * Surveillance, ACLU, accessed November 2010.
 * Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, accessed November 2010.