dataveillance

British

/ ˈdeɪtəˌveɪləns /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of dataveillance

from _data + _surveillance

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

Online versus offline is no longer the relevant distinction—instead, we need to think of it as dataveillance or no dataveillance.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

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

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

But we shouldn’t see being social online and being subjected to dataveillance as mutually constitutive conditions.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

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

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2018

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