Surveillance technology, as reported

Press coverage of government surveillance technology across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, each story tagged with the technology it covers and the jurisdictions it names.

About this index

Stories listed
Published or later. Older stories are not listed here.
Sources last checked
How stories are found
UnGovr’s automated news monitoring searches Google News and the GDELT news database for each technology this site tracks and keeps reporting on government use of it. A press release appears among the stories only when independent reporting covers it.

A story missing from this index is not evidence that no coverage exists, and inclusion records that a story was published, not a finding about the technology it covers. How the monitoring works

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The kind of system the story reports on. Type to search the list.

Where the story is set, at the widest level: a country, or a state in the US. The number is how many stories name it; a story that names no specific place matches none.

A county, city, police force or other jurisdiction inside a country or state. Picking one also sets its country or state; picking a country or state narrows this list.

Whether the article can be read without a subscription. ($) after an outlet’s name marks a paywall.

What the story reports about a system: an expansion, a reduction, or neither. It is the article’s account, not a WatchWatch finding. On a card, + or − after the technology marks it.

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