surveillance society
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noun
a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
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How to use surveillance society in a sentence
But what the papers told him was alarming: that Britain is sliding towards an entirely new kind of surveillance society.
She said the freedom to live life outside the confines of a “surveillance society” is a unifying American value.