What is mass surveillance?
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Mass surveillance is the subjection of a population or significant component of a group to indiscriminate monitoring. It involves a systematic interference with people’s right to privacy. Any system that generates and collects data on individuals without attempting to limit the dataset to well-defined targeted individuals is a form of mass surveillance.
Under the methods that mass surveillance is now capable of being conducted, governments can capture virtually all aspects of our lives. Today...
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