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= Passive Surveillance =

"Passive" - accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.

"Surveillance" - Following the whereabouts, goings-on, or changing information of one or more individuals.

Passive surveillance is a concept based around gathering information on a constant basis, without directly targeting individual persons'. Usually associated with certain information gathering techniques such as Telephone tapping and mass internet information gathering.

Organisations usually associated with gathering information on a mass scale are homeland security alongside the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/30372/passive-surveillance

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/11/320882348/project-eavesdrop-what-passive-surveillance-collects

http://www.army.cz/scripts/detail.php?id=6730

https://gigaom.com/2013/06/10/welcome-to-the-new-world-of-passive-surveillance/