surveillance society

British  

noun

1. a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities

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Example Sentences

In Pakistan, the girls are hemmed in by a surveillance society in which confidences cannot be shared over tapped phones.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022

We now have an immensely expanded surveillance society that uses biometric technologies and other innovations out of dystopian speculative fiction, now made real in the present.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021

While fear of infection is on the minds of many, “Citizenfour” director Laura Poitras raises concerns about the pandemic’s effect on the surveillance society.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021

While some parents welcomed the move, others called it "ridiculous" and a sign of "a surveillance society".

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2018

These stories are often framed as tales of normal people getting revenge on snooping tech bros—an understandable and fundamentally American reaction to a creeping surveillance society.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2016