The phrase
"ubiquitous surveillance" means constant monitoring or observing of people and their activities that is happening everywhere and all the time.
Full definition
In an age
of ubiquitous surveillance, the public has come to assume that someone or something is always watching, ready to spot trouble as it is happening.
The authorities knew that broadly distributing the images — some captured by
ubiquitous surveillance cameras and cellphone snapshots and winnowed down using sophisticated facial - recognition software — would accelerate the digital dragnet, but they did not realize the level of chaos it would create.
In this small nation of 1.3 million people, citizens have overcome fears of an Orwellian dystopia
with ubiquitous surveillance to become a highly digital society.
Like tomorrow's digital devices and
ubiquitous surveillance techniques, snoop dogs can be used to obtain incriminating evidence without transgressing property lines or invading one's personal space.
«Fears
of ubiquitous surveillance of individuals by other individuals, whether through such recordings or through other applications currently being developed, have been raised.»
His 1998 book, The Transparent Society, explores how technological innovations force us to choose between privacy and security, foreshadowing the era of YouTube and
ubiquitous surveillance cameras.
Owen plays Sal Frieland, a detective in a world where all crimes are solvable thanks to
ubiquitous surveillance.
Unlike say Watch Dogs, a game that yearned to critique the dangers of
ubiquitous surveillance, you're not endowed with an overwhelming toolset that allows you to take control of the environment.
It deals with the undemocratic / totalitarian / dystopian aspects of
ubiquitous surveillance.
Subtle it ain't, but the central point — that
ubiquitous surveillance is an inevitably totalitarian tool, not just inappropriate for democratic society, but actively inimical to it — is often underappreciated in the current debate.