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Surveillance tools

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Surveillance tools are all means of technology provided and used by the surveillance industry, police or military intelligence, and national security institutions that enable individual surveillance and mass surveillance. Steven Ashley in 2008 listed the following components used for surveillance:[1][2]

The electronic means, especially when combined with Internet features (ubiquitous computing, IoT) and enhanced by artificial intelligence analysis methods readily lend themselves to mass surveillance.[3] This is why countersurveillance measures like anonymization and end-to-end encryption have become critical. Devices like chemical markers, on the other hand are more suited and in fact designed mainly for monitoring individuals.

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References

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  1. ^ Scientific American.
  2. ^ ScienceDirect Topics.
  3. ^ STOA.
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  • "Mass Surveillance Part 1-Risks and opportunities raised by the current generation ofnetwork services and applications". EPRS European Parliamentary Research Service Scientific Foresight (STOA) UnitPE. 2014. pdf
  • "Digital Surveillance: Tools of the Spy Trade". Scientific American. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0908-70. Retrieved August 11, 2020.