electronic surveillance

noun

: the act of using electronic devices to watch people or things

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Signal jammers will also be set up around the Sistine Chapel to prevent electronic surveillance or communication. Jade Walker, CNN Money, 6 May 2025 The exposure of prisoner abuse, meanwhile, in conjunction with the administration’s embrace of torture, rendition, indefinite detention, and ever-increasing electronic surveillance, fed suspicions that the United States was abandoning its values in the quest to save them. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2017 When the girl was being interviewed on the street by police, the younger Henderson allegedly drove by in his Audi, which was tracked by electronic surveillance to Vallejo, authorities said. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 22 May 2025 The court also ordered that Fernández be placed under the watch of an electronic surveillance device to monitor her movements. Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025 Developed domestically in 2004, the system is capable of electronic surveillance, direction finding, and jamming both communication and radar signals. Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 But Yahya moved undetected in the tunnels under Gaza, rarely coming above ground and avoiding detection by Israel’s electronic surveillance. Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 14 May 2025 The Israeli electronic surveillance company NSO Group was ordered to pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp and its parent company Meta, bringing a close to six years of litigation. Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2025 Because the system operates passively, it cannot be easily identified by Ukrainian electronic surveillance. Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Electronic surveillance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electronic%20surveillance. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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