surveil
Verb
Meaning
keep under surveillance
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The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing
A cool example shown was an application that can surveil pipelines to spot leaks — a boring and manual task for humans.
By 1999, the United States government was attempting to surveil Zubaydah.
Hanna orders the police to surveil Waingro in a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport and leaks the information, suspecting that McCauley will try to kill Waingro when he finds out.
Since the Black Lives Matter movement ignited in 2015, many cities have been forced to reckon with systems that surveil and plunder in Black neighborhoods.
“Do we want to create a DOJ or FBI and give them unfettered power and tell them go surveil, go listen to people’s phone calls, go plant spies into people’s campaigns and then not have any way of holding them accountable?” he asked in an interview Tuesday.