Sousveillance
The researcher who coined the phrase, Steve Mann, has been working on wearable computing since the 80s. In any picture I’ve seen of him over the years he’s had some kind of camera on his face. He also invented the hdr image merging algorithm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
This may make sense in specific situations, but my favorite thing about it is the wordplay and what it points out about surveillance - surveillance is the more powerful watching the less powerful.
I have been looking for a lifeloging camera for a while. But i can't find anything that is discrete enogh. The n"arative clip" looked discrete. But it is of the market.
Just want something that takes picture every 20 min's or so. So that i can review/analyze some of my daily behaviors in hindsight.
Does anyone remember Hasan Elahi, profiled in Wired back in 2007?
https://web.archive.org/web/20130913190505/http://www.wired....
I wonder what every happened to his Sousveillance project? His map still updates, but I haven't seen any of his other post feeds updated in awhile.
Was what I immediately thought of and it was conveniently also referenced in the linked Wikipedia article.
What other strategies, like this one, have been invented which feels like a more offensive counterforce against the slow surveillance tide, in contrast to the more common defensive strategies that just tries to keep one step ahead of the arms race (e.g. better encryption)?
Overly centralized control of military power, economic power, and media distribution power are often bad and lead to corruption, while the distribution of the above generally lead to widespread benefit to civilization and society.
The biggest bang for the buck for benefit to the common man would be through the inversion of "Trusted Execution" or DRM technologies to enforce privacy policies on corporations and large organizations on behalf of the public. It will never happen, because the general public, and especially the tech portion of it, are emotionally conditioned against such technology. However, there are many mechanisms like this, which show this kind of asymmetry with regards to centralized power.
Some corporations have already taken a step in this direction, by giving up access to encryption keys and the ability to read their user's data. It would just be one step further for a corporation to cede control of privacy policy implementation on behalf of its customers by running code implementing those policies on trusted execution engines. This way, users will be able to revoke access to their data from corporations and large organizations.
The public will never go for this, however, because they're already conditioned against such technologies from its application by large organizations against the interests of individuals.
It surprised me to not find a single instance of "smartphone" or "smart phone" in that entire article.
Arguably every smartphone in the world participates unwittingly in a global sousveillance network, they don't even have lens covers or camera-active lights, while running heaps of privileged software beyond control of the owners.
Every time I find myself in a cafe, restaurant, or other populated public space it can be rather disturbing to count the number of networked cameras and microphones within my line of sight at any given moment thanks to this development.
Sousveillance is illegal on London’s TFL network. They show adverts on the screens asking you to report anybody doing it.
I've began experimenting with "sousveillance" - using two commodity pieces of hardware:
- A GoPro Hero5 Session - which is a ~2 inch cube that shoots 4K: which I use for running, bicycling for transportation, and as a dash cam. The stabilization features works decently. ~$150.
- An iON SnapCam - https://www.amazon.com/iON-Camera-SnapCam-Wearable-Bluetooth...
If you can find a good way of attaching this to yourself, it's not too bad. Fairly* low profile - about 2 inches by half inch. It can be purchased for ~$25.
Some things I am working to overcome is really on the "cloud" and "streaming" sides, as I feel it defeats the purpose to stream or upload to policed platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, etc.
I would love for somebody to combine Narrative's 8+ hour time-lapse lifelogging photos with the ability to be linked to your phone which would continuously upload the photos to a selected FTP server. That way if the device is confiscated or destroyed by law enforcement, you'd still have a record.
I went to a conference on this topic in Denmark some years ago
http://digitalurbanliving.projects.cavi.au.dk/www.digitalurb...
Isn't this just a fancy name for "reverse" surveillance?
I was almost certain that this article was about my WIFI enabled Sous Vide cooker being hacked.
Stay away from my cooking times and trade secrets China! These ribs are fall off the bone tender!
Dr. Seussveillance
This reminds me of the old YouTube art project "Surveillance Camera Man". Since taken off YouTube, but you can still find mirrors. https://archive.org/details/SurveillanceCameraMan18