Veillance wants to be shared! But
sousveillance (undersight) is often prohibited by proponents or practitioners
of surveillance. I argue that this “we're
watching you but you're not allowed to watch us” hypocrisy creates a
conflict-of-interest that tends to invite corruption (data corruption as well
as human corruption). When police seized
CCTV recordings from when they mistakenly shot Jean Charles de Menezes 7 times
in the head in a London subway in 2005, the police claimed that the four
separate surveillance recordings were all blank (after transit officials had
already viewed the recordings and seen the recordings of the shooting). Indeed the opposite of hypocrisy is
integrity. In this way it can be argued
that surveillance (oversight), through its hypocrisy, embodies an inherent lack
of integrity. A society with
oversight-only, is an oversight on our part! More
generally, we can construct the following table:
Surveillance
Sousveillance
(oversight) (undersight)
Hypocrisy
Integrity
Secrecy
Openness
Centralized
Distributed
Against this backdrop, I will describe PI (Priveillance Institute),
working at the intersection of Privacy and Veillance (sur and sous).
If you want to see Steve Mann's wearables in action at a multi-media workshop, there's an event at Stanford coming up:
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Registration: http://www.tei-conf.org/15/registration/
PDF: tei2015.pdf
Date: Friday, 16 January, 2015
Steve Mann sends his greetings from Spaceglasses.com headquarters in Silicon Valley California and at Stanford University in California where he just did some veillametrics:
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V- cool pictures that perhaps might help improve human-machine understanding/empathy in the field of surveillance (as humans start to appreciate what machines are doing/seeing)?
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