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Moreover, the fifth-gen submarine also has an electronic surveillance suite that can intercept and classify enemy signals passively, feeding data into NATO’s broader intelligence networks.
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Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Purchasing records from schools across the country show that districts are spending millions to install sensors in student bathrooms—once considered a privacy no-go for electronic surveillance—to alert them to changes in air quality.
—Mark Keierleber, Wired News, 19 Nov. 2025
The information that leads to an interdiction comes from human sources as well as what's known as signals intelligence, or electronic surveillance.
—Ryan Lucas, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
One classic discussion underscored the mobsters’ concern about electronic surveillance and demonstrated their inability to do much about it.
—George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media, the United Nations said in a major new report.
—Dan De Luce, NBC news, 13 Sep. 2025
Longtime Chicago criminal defense attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin, a fierce advocate for his clients who became nationally known for challenging government overreach on everything from terrorism investigations to electronic surveillance, died Monday after a brief hospitalization.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Some of the records include transcripts of wiretaps and electronic surveillance.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
Decades of unease over the rise of electronic surveillance have primed us to freak out.
—Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Purchasing records from schools across the country show that districts are spending millions to install sensors in student bathrooms—once considered a privacy no-go for electronic surveillance—to alert them to changes in air quality.
—Mark Keierleber, Wired News, 19 Nov. 2025
The information that leads to an interdiction comes from human sources as well as what's known as signals intelligence, or electronic surveillance.
—Ryan Lucas, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
One classic discussion underscored the mobsters’ concern about electronic surveillance and demonstrated their inability to do much about it.
—George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
The North Korean government has intensified repression inside the isolated, nuclear-armed state, expanding electronic surveillance and publicly executing people for sharing foreign media, the United Nations said in a major new report.
—Dan De Luce, NBC news, 13 Sep. 2025
Longtime Chicago criminal defense attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin, a fierce advocate for his clients who became nationally known for challenging government overreach on everything from terrorism investigations to electronic surveillance, died Monday after a brief hospitalization.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Some of the records include transcripts of wiretaps and electronic surveillance.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
Decades of unease over the rise of electronic surveillance have primed us to freak out.
—Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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“Electronic surveillance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electronic%20surveillance. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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