| 单词 | mass surveillance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmass surveillance mass surveillance n. the monitoring of, or collection of information about, the individuals in a large group of people, esp. an entire population or section of a population.Now typically with reference to routine or automatic gathering of information on a population by its government, using electronic means such as CCTV, collection of online data, etc., for the purposes of national security, law enforcement, control, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > surveillance > specific type of suicide watch1929 stake-out1942 mass surveillance1955 1955 M. K. Matossian Impact Soviet Policies Armenia, 1920–36 (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) 322 The government apparatus of Armenia was purged from top to bottom and ‘mass surveillance’ over the government staff was increased. 1994 Jrnl. Public Policy & Marketing 13 175/2 Larson concludes that this mass surveillance is in fact an ‘assault on human dignity and the sanctity of self’. 2019 E. Snowden Permanent Rec. xvi. 176 The NSA's historic brief had been fundamentally altered from targeted collection of communications to ‘bulk collection’, which is the agency's euphemism for mass surveillance. < as lemmas |
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