Surveillance vs Audit - What's the difference?
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Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
(military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
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(legal) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
An audience; a hearing.
* Milton
An examination in general.
A judicial examination.
An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures
The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
* Shakespeare
(Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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(obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
* Jeremy Taylor
To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
(finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
(Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
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To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.
As nouns the difference between surveillance and audit
is that surveillance is close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion while audit is an audience; a hearing.As a verb audit is
to examine and adjust (e.g. an account).surveillance
English
(wikipedia surveillance)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance , intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.}}
Derived terms
* uberveillanceSee also
* wiretapping * shadowing * tailing * lookout (act) * sousveillance English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----audit
English
(wikipedia audit)Noun
(en noun)- He appeals to a high audit .
- National Assembly audit
- Yet I can make my audit up.
- It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.
Derived terms
* audit ale * audit house * audit roomVerb
(en verb)- to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
- In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited .
