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dataveillance
/ ˈɪəˌɪəԲ /
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of dataveillance1
Example Sentences
Dataveillance has become so pervasive that it now seems almost reasonable to trade off privacy for a social life.
Experts on wearable technologies and digital profiling have started saying that we need to shift from talking about surveillance to talking about dataveillance.
Indeed, many commentators have recently shown how seemingly harmless practices of dataveillance reproduce social inequality.
The most successful companies make their dataveillance part of their marketing.
These practices evolved under strict European Union data privacy guidelines that make dataveillance harder online, but easy offline.
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