dataveillance

/ ˈdeɪtəˌveɪləns /

noun

1. the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, mobile phone calls, and internet use

Word History and Origins

Origin of dataveillance¹

from _data + _surveillance

Example Sentences

Dataveillance has become so pervasive that it now seems almost reasonable to trade off privacy for a social life.

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Experts on wearable technologies and digital profiling have started saying that we need to shift from talking about surveillance to talking about dataveillance.

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Indeed, many commentators have recently shown how seemingly harmless practices of dataveillance reproduce social inequality.

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The most successful companies make their dataveillance part of their marketing.

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These practices evolved under strict European Union data privacy guidelines that make dataveillance harder online, but easy offline.

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