övervakas

Övervakas is the present passive form of the Swedish verb övervaka, meaning that something or someone is being supervised, watched, or monitored. The form is commonly used in official, legal, and organizational contexts to describe ongoing observation or control by authorities, institutions, or systems.

Grammar and derivation: Overvaka means to supervise or monitor. In Swedish, the present passive is formed with the suffix -s, yielding övervakas in the present passive. For example, Personen övervakas av polisen means The person is monitored by the police. The agent performing the monitoring is usually expressed with av.

Usage and domains: Övervakas can describe surveillance of individuals, groups, or processes. It appears in contexts such as law enforcement, corrections, border control, workplace monitoring, and digital data surveillance. The term is common in policy documents, news reporting, and technical descriptions where monitoring is described as ongoing and current, rather than completed.

Legal and ethical considerations: Surveillance raises questions about privacy and civil liberties. In Sweden and the European Union, activities involving övervakning are regulated under data protection rules, including the General Data Protection Regulation and national legislation. The use of övervakas in public discourse often accompanies debates about legality, proportionality, necessity, and safeguards to protect individual rights.

See also: övervakning, övervaka, integritet, dataskydd, GDPR.