Sousveillance

(en.wikipedia.org)

41 points | by xeonmc 13 hours ago

6 comments

  • goodmythical 11 hours ago
    I don't see the need for a new word.

    Surveillance is the monitoring of one party by another unaware party.

    A company surveilling an individual and an individual surveilling a company is the same activity, despite one perhaps having potentially greater resources.

    I don't buy the claim that the root word meaning "above" means that we should mean that we need another word with a root word meaning "below" given that a so called "sousveiller" could in fact be recording from a place of advantage. (Either physically above a company or given the potential scheduling freedom of a dedicated and compelled freelancer.

    Is it sousveillance if one were to write a script logging every available source of one other who's registered a company and is the soul employee of said company? e.g. If some neckbeard "sousveills" every post of a sex worker that's working for a company they registered for their own tax purposes?

    Clearly not. The first might be suurveillance or possibly spying, and the second is clearly stalking.

    • nephihaha 6 hours ago
      Sousveillance is not that new a word. I remember seeing it at least twenty years ago.
      • donkey_brains 2 hours ago
        Damn, that’s so cool. I just learned it today! I love when that happens. Now I have all this reading to do!
    • likeclockwork 10 hours ago
      It's about power. Not about resources or entity type.
  • CatMustard 4 hours ago
    In the case of Meta glasses I'd argue that's still surveillance given that a large and powerful tech corp are in control of the hardware and software.
  • doginasuit 11 hours ago
    This seems like one of those terms you have to explain every time you say it so people understand you aren't just pronouncing it wrong.
  • Cider9986 11 hours ago
    https://sunders.uber.space/

    https://deflock.org/

    I'm opposed to public security cameras. No expectation of privacy in public does not mean we should surveil everything in public.

  • sublinear 11 hours ago
    I guess this is more polite than calling people "ratchet af" for wearing meta glasses.