Digital Rights Watch’s head of policy, Tom Sulston, highlighted the need for people to be able to access public areas without fear of unwanted video surveillance.

A surveillance camera outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto on Sept. 24, 2026. (The Epoch Times) “Canada must never be allowed to become a place where a foreign regime carries out transnational repression.”

“We will not stand up for our sovereignty or our values by working with a government that has kidnapped our people, interfered with our elections, dropped surveillance buoys in our Arctic waters, and set up secret police stations on Canadian soil,” Tory

Many plaintiffs reported being detained, tortured, or having family members killed as a result of this surveillance.

Nevertheless, there will always be advocates for the surveillance state as the solution to preventing serious crimes.

in an Oct. 20 post ⁠on X, Allison Hart, NATO’s principal spokeswoman, said that the assets will support surveillance, reconnaissance, and forensic activities.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink directly addressed China’s expanding military capabilities during Wednesday’s panel, warning that advances in satellite surveillance could increasingly expose American military assets to detection and targeting.

But these are not valid reasons to turn society into a surveillance state.

Commentary The most important thing to understand about China’s surveillance state is that it isn’t built around a single breakthrough sensor. It’s built around an operating system.

The surveillance program is known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect emails, phone calls, texts, and other communications of foreign nationals located outside the United

Continuous armed and unarmed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance of all likely cruise missile, drone, and fast attack boat launch points. 24/7 AWACS (E-2, E-3) surveillance of the entire area.

Chung explains what that means in practice: a trafficking industry that sells women crossing the border, a zero-tolerance policy that sends those caught back to prison camps, and surveillance so complete that refugees report having to send police a daily

Other threats against department personnel include surveillance of Navy ships, critical infrastructure, and flight lines by unmanned aircraft systems and attempted physical attacks and probes against access control points, the Navy stated.

ET on June 11, including consideration of H.R. 9238, a measure to extend authorities under Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act through July 2. The bill is being considered under suspension of the rules.

ET on April 15, including on an 18-month extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Banking surveillance image of Erekle Gugava on Feb. 24, 2025. (U.S. Department of Justice)The Russian-based crime organization allegedly exploited the U.S. financial system by depositing insurance reimbursement checks from the fraud.

Officials say the effort is intended to expand intelligence sources while adapting to China's extensive surveillance apparatus. The NSB acknowledged that Chinese people attempting to use the platform face significant digital surveillance risks.

On June 12, Congress failed to pass an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows for the warrantless surveillance of non-Americans who are living abroad.

Xi has AI-powered facial recognition, mobile surveillance, social credit scores, the Great Firewall, mandatory phone inspection at checkpoints, and now a legal framework criminalizing any tool that could evade surveillance.

In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Alliance president and CEO John Bozzella said China’s auto industry has benefited from unfair trade practices, government subsidies, intellectual property theft, and surveillance.

Separately, Anthropic reported that China-linked actors used Claude accounts to support surveillance of political, religious, and diaspora targets, including monitoring connected to overseas communities and protests.

“By unplugging and covering them, we’re making it clear: privacy isn’t optional, and mass surveillance isn’t how we do things here.”

That would reassure many people that his legislation is not merely an attempt to distract Canadians from the government’s mass surveillance of law-abiding citizens. 

When the surveillance cameras were set up to investigate and the footage showed puzzling lights moving about the offices, lawyer Sushil Sharma felt vindicated.

However, it is not clear whether any of those three cases involved bulk surveillance programs.  

What is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Why is its Section 702 so controversial? Let’s break it down.

Air traffic control audio and surveillance footage reveal the critical moments leading up to the deadly collision. 

Anthropic said it was concerned that the technology could be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, which the Pentagon has denied.

'Surveillance Pricing' The minister also pointed to proposed restrictions in the bill on using personal information for "surveillance pricing" at stores.

The memo also prohibits the use of AI technologies to “censor free speech, embed ideological bias, or conduct unauthorized or unlawful surveillance activities.”