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Meanwhile, a new wave of digital tools has emerged to help surveil the surveillants.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Photography has long been complicit in these systems, used to surveil, categorise, and justify power.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
What To Know Japan's Foreign Ministry announced the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the French Navy conducted operations to monitor and surveil illicit activities by North Korean ships from early to mid-October and from mid-October to mid-November, respectively.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Using those tools to surveil political opponents would chill lawful protest and erode civil liberties.
—Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Photography has long been complicit in these systems, used to surveil, categorise, and justify power.
—Photovogue, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
What To Know Japan's Foreign Ministry announced the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the French Navy conducted operations to monitor and surveil illicit activities by North Korean ships from early to mid-October and from mid-October to mid-November, respectively.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Using those tools to surveil political opponents would chill lawful protest and erode civil liberties.
—Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surveil. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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