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geoslavery

noun

Etymology

From geo- + slavery, coined by Jerome Dobson and Peter Fisher in 2003 and refined in 2007.

  1. derived from σκῡλεύω
  2. derived from Σκλάβος
  3. derived from Sclavus — “Slav”
  4. derived from sclavus — “slave”
  5. derived from sclave
  6. inherited from sclave
  7. suffixed as slavery — “slave + ery”
  8. prefixed as geoslavery — “geo + slavery”

Definitions

  1. The use of geolocation and geosurveillance technologies to monitor and control…

    The use of geolocation and geosurveillance technologies to monitor and control individuals in a coercive or surreptitious manner, with the control being overpowering and uncompensated.

    • As a worst-case scenario, some scholars have also contemplated the possibility of geoslavery in this age of ubiquitous computing[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for geoslavery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA