It is also worth pointing out that your dictionary definition of 'surveil' discounts entirely the watching of law-abiding political dissidents. As we have seen

It is also worth pointing out that your dictionary definition of 'surveil' discounts entirely the watching of law-abiding political dissidents. As we have seen, such software is used to monitor human rights workers and NGOs. Finessing a repressive government's characterization of such persons as spies or criminals is exactly the same justification used by the purveyors of the software itself - "it is not to be used for unlawful purposes".