English-Portuguese translations for surveillance

• vigilância
  O Centro terá por missão o reforço da vigilância. The centre will enhance surveillance.
  Objecto: Rede de vigilância epidemiológica Subject: Network for epidemiological surveillance
  A vigilância generalizada compromete essa confiança. Mass surveillance threatens that confidence.

Definition of surveillance

• Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion
• Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means
• In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places

Related words

• countersurveillance
• cybersurveillance
• telesurveillance
• cyber-surveillance
• surveillance camera
• surveillance monitor
• surveillance state
• air surveillance
• physical surveillance