On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:46:38AM +0200, Gabriel Niebler wrote: > On the contrary, IMO this sort of thing is fully encompassed by the > word surveillance, at least as far as I have always understood it. > Otherwise any surveillance camera installed in a public or publicly > accessible place would not be one, by definition, since it is only > gathering publicly available information.
Just to get pedantic, according to Wikipedia [1]:
Surveillance 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 such as human intelligence agents and postal
interception. The word surveillance comes from a French phrase for
"watching over" ("sur" means "from above" and "veiller" means "to watch"),
and is in contrast to more recent developments such as sousveillance.
1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance
From that, I gather that surveillance is to gather information with the intent
of "influencing, managing, directing, or protecting [people]". HACIENDA is
gathering public information, with the intent to "plan intrusions into the
servers".
That seems pretty clear to me that HACIENDA is indeed a surveillance program.
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