mass surveillance

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandsurveillance

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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surveillance
noun[U]
uk
/səˈveɪ.ləns/us
/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or ...
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(Definition ofmassandsurveillancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Let us do that first before we havemasssurveillanceof the whole population.
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They will not lead – as some have argued – to themasssurveillanceof our citizens or to unnecessary invasion of their right to privacy.
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This again is disturbing, because already we are into the era ofmasssurveillanceof the population by the authorities.
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Masssurveillancethreatens that confidence.
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The association organizes conferences, workshops, publishes e-books, as well as contributes to the organization of online and offline campaigns against internet censorship,masssurveillance.
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Wartime censorship often involves forms ofmasssurveillance.
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Masssurveillancehas the potential to erode privacy.
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One of the most common forms ofmasssurveillanceis carried out by commercial organizations.
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The problem right now, especially after multiple revisions, is that it does nt effectively endmasssurveillance.
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Masssurveillanceis still heinous, even if private company servers are holding the data instead of government data centers.
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This is viewed as a means of preventingmasssurveillanceby intelligence agencies.
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Concern has been expressed that governments may use this information to conductmasssurveillanceon their populations.
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The digital revolution helped usher in a new age ofmasssurveillance, generating a range of new civil and human rights issues.
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The disclosures have fueled debates overmasssurveillance, government secrecy, and the balance between national security and information privacy.
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Masssurveillanceonly increases the size of the haystack, which doesn't help in finding the needle.
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It specializes in developing live and recorded video viewing, storage and retrieval solutions focusing on themasssurveillanceand video monitoring markets.
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This perpetual war is used as a pretext for subjecting the people tomasssurveillanceand invasive police searches.
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Today it is known that clandestinemasssurveillance/computer surveillance systems track a significant percent of the world's telephony and internet traffic.
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There is also the state's use ofmasssurveillance, such as closed-circuit television, on its citizens.
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