surveillance technology

collocation in English

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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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technology
noun[C or U]
uk
/tekˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/tekˈnɑː.lə.dʒi/
(the study and knowledge of) the practical, especially industrial, use of ...
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The refinements ofsurveillancetechnology, as it is now called, with its huge paraphernalia of listening and recording devices, necessitate this.
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The use ofsurveillancetechnologyand the amount of money spent on it in each police force is a matter for the chief officer.
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We have no wish to undermine the police's use ofsurveillancetechnologywhich plays a key role in the response to serious and organised crime.
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What is known assurveillancetechnologyhas many subtleties.
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He also lashed out against organizer ofsurveillancetechnologyconference for condoning sales to authoritarian governments.
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Thanks to technological advances in electronic toll collection, electronic detection, and videosurveillancetechnology, collecting congestion fees has become easier.
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Exports ofsurveillancetechnologyto foreign regimes are still wholly at the discretion of the exporter.
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In such cases, freedom has capitulated to a totalitarian elite power controlling the masses through the use of technology, particularly media and surveillance technologies.
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During 2012, there was growing international awareness of the problems inherent in the rise of the surveillance industry and increasing momentum towards stricter regulation ofsurveillancetechnologyexports.
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This collective submission takes place in an environment where the use of biometrics and other cutting-edge surveillance technologies are already a reality.
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Such groups include corporations that contract prison labor, construction companies,surveillancetechnology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them.
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It should go without saying in societies based on the rule of law that such all-embracing surveillance technologies require broad and open discussion.
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These are information technology, treatment and prevention of drug misuse, police communications and surveillance technologies, and systems for detecting illicit goods.
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Additionally, the program included funding for biometric surveillance technologies that could identify and track individuals using surveillance cameras, and other methods.
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There he studied in fields of military radio, radar, reconnaissance and surveillance technologies.
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Surveillance has become a technoethical challenge because the rapid development of surveillance technologies.
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This kind of anticipation is particularly evident in emergent surveillance technologies such as social network analysis.
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Use of locative technologies includes a range of experimental uses of geo-technologies including location-based games, artistic critique of surveillance technologies, experiential mapping, and spatial annotation.
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An artificial general intelligence having undergone an intelligence explosion could form a singleton, as could a world government armed with mind control and social surveillance technologies.
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In response to these popular misuses of technology in the workplace, some organizations have implemented workplace surveillance technologies and content-control software to monitor and restrict employees activities online.
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