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surveillance
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- Instance of
- industry
- Subclass of
- social issue
- Part of
- safety
- Has part
- frame of reference
- Image
- Surveillance video cameras, Gdynia.jpeg
- Has use
- data acquisition
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- Commons category
- Surveillance
- topic's main category
- Category:Surveillance
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- partially coincident with
- prevention
- OpenStreetMap tag
- man_made=surveillance
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10003487
- facet of
- internal security
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Encyclopedic overview
42 sectionsContents
- Methods
- Computer
- Telephones
- Cameras
- Social network analysis
- Biometric
- Aerial{{anchor|Aerial surveillance}}
- Corporate
- Data mining and profiling
- Human operatives
- Satellite imagery
- Identification and credentials
- Wireless tracking
- Mobile phones
- RFID tagging
- RFID tagging on humans
- Radar
- Geolocation devices
- Global Positioning System
- Devices
- Postal services
- Stakeout
- Internet of things
- Controversy
- Support
- Opposition
- Totalitarianism
- Psychological/social effects
- Privacy
- Court cases
- Countersurveillance, inverse surveillance, sousveillance
- Popular culture
- In literature
- In music
- Onscreen
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- General information
- Historical information
- Legal resources
- External links
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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.
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