What is Surveillance

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The continuous evaluation of a disease or health variable using uniform, rapid, precise, and accurate methods. Learn more in: Geographical Information Management Approaches: Improvements in Health and Social Care

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The continuous evaluation of a disease or health variable using uniform, rapid, precise, and accurate methods. Learn more in: Geographical Information Management Approaches: Improvements in Health and Social Care

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Close and often hidden observation. On the internet, the surveillance is carried out by using software technology and results in large amount of data to be analyzed by using other software technology. Learn more in: Big Brothers Are Seducing You: Consumerism, Surveillance, and the Agency of Consumers

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It is the practice of monitoring, through human resources and/or technical movements, actions and habits of individuals or groups of individuals. Learn more in: The Gatekeepers of Cyberspace: Surveillance, Control, and Internet Regulation in Brazil

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Is “the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice” (CDC, 2014). Learn more in: Hepatitis E: Overview and Management in Namibia

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Listening in to nearly all electronic signals emanated or exchanged by persons. Learn more in: Masters of Imagination: From Hierarchies to Connected Swarms

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Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting people. Learn more in: Is Somebody Spying on Us?: Social Media Users' Privacy Awareness

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An official process which collects and records data on pest presence or absence by survey, monitoring, or other methods. Learn more in: Surveillance for Early Detection of High-Consequence Pests and Pathogens

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Keeping a close watch or supervision over someone. Learn more in: Situating Foucault in Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Measures

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The careful watching of a person or place, especially by an organization, the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or is expected. Learn more in: The Influence of Life Stories and Literature on Critical Thinking

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The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of data about disease. Learn more in: Information Technology and Data Systems in Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare and the Broader Community

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The act of observing someone closely to collect information about the person’s activities. It can be used by a state to monitor unscrupulous elements to investigate crime or prevent it altogether. Meanwhile, it can also be used by the state to monitor the citizens so as to prevent activism or opposition and promote repression. Learn more in: The Challenge of Democratization in Africa: From Digital Democracy to Digital Authoritarianism

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Surveillance pertains to the collection and processing of personal data for the purpose of influencing or managing other persons or systems. Learn more in: Citizen Participation in Community Surveillance: Mapping the Dynamics of WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Practices

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An organized system of sample design and collection, testing, and reporting intended to collect information about a hazard with a certain likelihood or level of precision in a defined period of time. Learn more in: Surveillance Design After Initial Detection

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Monitoring, observations of Learn more in: The Criticality of an ICT Ethics Backbone for Transformation and Social Equality in E-Learning

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Refers to practices of monitoring, observing, and/or tracking individuals and groups, often for purposes of identification, categorization, social organization, security or control. Learn more in: The Mediation of Identity: Key Issues in Historic Perspective

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Means keeping a close watch over other individuals and their activities. It is the process of monitoring individuals’ behavior and their activities for the purpose of gathering information and then using that information to manage, direct and control them. Surveillance techniques can include simple observation techniques to the usage of highly technically advanced electronic equipment. Learn more in: A Foucauldian Perspective on Using the Transparency Framework in Learning and Teaching (TILT)

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Monitoring the behaviour and actions of the organizational members, based also on the information generated of various work tasks. Learn more in: A Practice Perspective on Transforming Mobile Work

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It is defined as coercive, technological, and political method for controlling and disciplining workers for gaining control, profit, and power leading to prevalence and popularization of dominant voice, employee poor performance, productivity, resentment, and toxicity. It is also described as modern-day panopticon. Learn more in: A Critical Narrative of Employee Well-Being and Control Paradox in Higher Education

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Surveillance is supervision and monitoring of persons, groups, societies etc. in order to gather information. Learn more in: When Bentham Meets Big Data in Times of COVID-19: Social Credit System of China

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To follow directly or indirectly (via technology) something or somebody. Learn more in: Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance

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In the narrow sense, surveillance means the close observation of persons of interest. However, with the capabilities of technology it has gained a more systematic and pervasive character in the society. Learn more in: Transformation of Entertainment Culture throughout Society and History

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Can be viewed as a violation of privacy. A graph of the relationships between users on social networking sites. Social network analysis enables governments to gather detailed information about peoples' friends, family, and other contacts. Since much of this information is voluntarily made public by the users themselves, it is often considered to be a form of open-source intelligence. One common form of surveillance is to create maps of social networks based on data from social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. These social network “maps” are then data mined to extract useful information such as personal interests, friendships & affiliations, wants, beliefs, thoughts, and activities. Learn more in: Voyeurism in Social Networks and Changing the Perception of Privacy on the Example of Instagram