Reporting vs Surveillance - What's the difference?
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(economics, journalism) The activity that results in reports for a business or a journal.
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.
As nouns the difference between reporting and surveillance
is that reporting is (economics|journalism) the activity that results in reports for a business or a journal while surveillance is close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.As a verb reporting
is .reporting
English
(wikipedia reporting)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(head)Anagrams
*surveillance
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(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.}}
