How to Use electronic surveillance in a Sentence

electronic surveillance

noun
  • The information that leads to an interdiction comes from human sources as well as what's known as signals intelligence, or electronic surveillance.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
  • He was arrested four months later after being identified by witnesses and electronic surveillance, according to court records.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • One classic discussion underscored the mobsters’ concern about electronic surveillance and demonstrated their inability to do much about it.
    — George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But only after indictments were handed down and evidence was introduced at trials did the extent of the electronic surveillance operation become known.
    — George Anastasia, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors say these types of robberies, while rare, are meticulously planned and designed to overcome increasingly prevalent electronic surveillance.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This targeting success surely owes much to advanced electronic surveillance and deep cyber penetration of Iran’s weapons systems and infrastructure.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The federal law sets out rules and procedures for gathering foreign intelligence through electronic surveillance, physical searches, pen registers and more.
    — John Parkinson, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These rotorcraft can conduct reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, and electronic surveillance without risking human crews.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • RightsCon is an annual conference focused on human rights and technology and deals with issues like internet censorship, electronic surveillance and cyberwarfare.
    — ABC News, 2 May 2026
  • Early in the space age, the United States launched some electronic surveillance satellites to low Earth orbit — those in the GRAB and POPPY lines, for example.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Moreover, the fifth-gen submarine also has an electronic surveillance suite that can intercept and classify enemy signals passively, feeding data into NATO’s broader intelligence networks.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Its electronic surveillance suite can intercept and classify enemy signals passively, feeding data into NATO’s broader intelligence networks.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Investigators are using tools ranging from electronic surveillance — which includes the internet — undercover operations and informants to monitor any potential threat of attack from terrorist groups Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and ISIS.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The result was the creation of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a mass electronic surveillance program that, like its predecessor, has been used to violate Americans’ constitutional rights at scale.
    — Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Much of this, like the infamous STELLAR WIND mass electronic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency, took place in secret, until it was exposed by The New York Times in December 2005.
    — Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026

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