Mass surveillance

Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof. Mass surveillance may be done either with or without the consent of those under surveillance, and may or may not serve their interests. For example, the monitoring of the population for disease in epidemiology would generally be viewed as a benign form of mass surveillance, whereas a network of secret police informers would be regarded as surveillance abuse.

Related Topics:
Surveillance - Consent - Disease - Epidemiology - Secret police - Surveillance abuse

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