panvasive

English

Etymology

Blend of pan- +‎ pervasive +‎ invasive, coined by American law professor Christopher Slobogin in 2013.

Adjective

panvasive (comparative more panvasive, superlative most panvasive)

1. (neologism, of surveillance) Massively invasive on a large scale.
   • 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

     I suggest that we now face the moment in history when the elemental right to the future tense is endangered by a panvasive digital architecture of behavior modification owned and operated by surveillance capital, necessitated by its economic imperatives, and driven by its laws of motion, all for the sake of its guaranteed outcomes.

   • 2021, Rachel Harmon, The Law of the Police, Aspen Publishing, →ISBN, page 516:

     He argues these panvasive activities look more like what administrative agencies do than the stuff of traditional order maintenance policing, and they should be governed accordingly.