Noun
Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. Glenn Greenwald
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. William O. Douglas
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. Edward Snowden
History leaved no doubt that collective coercion and control is both the intent and effect of state surveillance. Glenn Greenwald
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused. Edward Snowden
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. Agnes Smedley