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1972 D. R. Davis in Columbia Human Rights Law Rev. 4 111 The computer and the related science of cybernetics..afford government officials the ability to conduct ‘dataveillance’ (review presently stored information on a particular subject) for the purpose of retrieving, collating, or evaluating those bits of information relevant to the subject of the records check.

1979 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 12 Aug. c1/6 Most people want action now to stop what they consider a slide from sly surveillance to dotty dataveillance on the part of government, banks, insurance companies,..[etc.].

1988 R. Clarke Information Technol. & Dataveillance in www.rogerclarke.com/DV/CACM88.html (O.E.D. Archive) The conclusion is inescapable that the populations of at least some of the advanced Western nations are severely threatened by unbridled, IT-driven dataveillance.

1995 New Scientist 20 May 36/2 Then there is dataveillance. Computer databases maintained by government departments and marketing organisations are stuffed full of intimate details about us.

2006 E. Kelly Powerful Times ii. 28 One controversial feature of dataveillance is the growing tendency for information to be captured for one apparent purpose and then redeployed for another.