Description: An Introduction to Surveillance - The Eyes and Ears of Public Health, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System with Paula Yoon, ScD, MPH, What is Genomic Surveillance?, Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
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Surveillance ( / s ər ˈ v eɪ . ə n s / or / s ər ˈ v eɪ l ə n s / ) is the monitoring of the behavior , activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment (such as CCTV cameras), or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or phone calls); and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods suc
Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence gathering, the prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or for the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes such as robbery and kidnapping, by businesses to gather intelligence, and by private investigators .
Surveillance is a 2008 American independent thriller film co-written and directed by Jennifer Lynch and starring Julia Ormond , Bill Pullman , Michael Ironside and French Stewart . The story is set in the Nebraska plains of United States. The film premiered "out of competition" and appeared in a midnight slot at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival . Surveillance is Lynch's second feature film, following a fifteen-year break after Boxing Helena .