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Recent Examples of surveil
Now, the men guard their towns from mountain watch posts and surveil 100 cartel gunmen camped out a few miles away using their own drones.
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Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Anthropic was happy to permit a role for Claude to surveil individuals under the jurisdiction of a FISA court, a secretive tribunal that oversees requests for surveillance warrants involving foreign powers or their agents on domestic soil.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Civil liberties groups, however, continue to accuse the company of doing the opposite—by helping the government surveil.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
Toh says that while this is technically legal, an AI model like Claude can put together seemingly unrelated data points that would provide extremely sensitive insights into people’s lives, habits, and movements that could be used to surveil or target them.
—Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2026
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Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Anthropic was happy to permit a role for Claude to surveil individuals under the jurisdiction of a FISA court, a secretive tribunal that oversees requests for surveillance warrants involving foreign powers or their agents on domestic soil.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Civil liberties groups, however, continue to accuse the company of doing the opposite—by helping the government surveil.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
Toh says that while this is technically legal, an AI model like Claude can put together seemingly unrelated data points that would provide extremely sensitive insights into people’s lives, habits, and movements that could be used to surveil or target them.
—Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2026
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Weiner also touted the NYPD’s network of cameras and sensors, which are monitored by members of the NYPD’s intelligence division, and international liaison officers posted in the Middle East as elements providing the department with early-warning detection capabilities.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has monitored a large rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic rhetoric over the last year that only intensified since the war in the Middle East began, Levi said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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John offers to marry Claire to protect her when the British Army wants to arrest her for spying.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Mizan also reported that Iran executed a man on charges of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
Arkansas Online,
19 Mar. 2026
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When Sonny eventually passes out, Chee starts doing some snooping around.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
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Although privacy advocates have praised the ability of encryption to effectively scramble messages so third parties are unable to snoop on people’s conversations, various members of law enforcement have said that doing so impedes their ability to investigate certain crimes.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Surveil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surveil. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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