Dataveillance

Surveillance conducted through the systematic collection, aggregation, and analysis of personal digital data — clicks, location traces, physiological signals, text, voice, facial data — rather than through direct observation. Dataveillance is the dominant mode in modern workplace monitoring, social-media platforms, automated hiring, and predictive health tools. For accessibility, dataveillance raises specific harms: disability-revealing signals leak through behavioural proxies (typing patterns, gaze, speech rate), assistive-technology use is legible to observers who control the platform, and disabled users have little meaningful ability to consent or withdraw.