surveillance
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Nationally, Flock officials say, about 7,000 law enforcement agencies use a total of 120,000 cameras and other surveillance products.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Police say surveillance technology like this, including Flock cameras, is important for fighting crime.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“It was collected as part of the National Park Service’s routine wildlife disease surveillance program, which helps monitor diseases that naturally occur in wildlife populations,” the statement read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Readers shared their thoughts about the cameras and other public-safety surveillance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“But I think it’s troublesome for the country that there is surveillance of citizens, and that the right of privacy is being threatened.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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And with the increased use of the Internet and so that changed the level of technical complexity of the surveillances that the FBI wanted to do.
From MSNBC ● May 30, 2019
The secretive court approves surveillances warrants under Fisa against "agent of a foreign power", mainly to either the FBI or NSA.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2017
I am still being surveilled, but now it’s much harder to tie all those small surveillances back to me and ads don’t follow me around.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2015
Del Rosario said the latest Chinese activity in Scarborough Shoal was discussed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, where fresh surveillances pictures were shown.
From Reuters ● Sep. 4, 2013
No. I never had the occasion, but I've seen guardsmen run remote surveillances, and even exert control when necessary.
From The Players by Steve Solomon
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John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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