Sousveillance
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Sousveillance
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#2This 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.
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#3What 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)?
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#4What 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)?
There's a french guy, part of an activist group that likes to invent passive trolling strategies to fight bad groups (lobbies, governments). For instance they robbed some stupid furnitures from a bank that just avoided some fraud scandal so they start to sue the group. A big company starting a lawsuit to get some chair was super negative to their image. I'll try to find his name again.
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#5What 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)?
There's a french guy, part of an activist group that likes to invent passive trolling strategies to fight bad groups (lobbies, governments). For instance they robbed some stupid furnitures from a bank that just avoided some fraud scandal so they start to sue the group. A big company starting a lawsuit to get some chair was super negative to their image. I'll try to find his name again.
That reminds me of the group that closed a valve on an oil pipeline[1]. The aim was to bring the case to trial, so that they could claim that they were acting legally, as the alternative (letting the pipeline continue to operate) was a direct threat to them, by its contribution to climate change.
The case got thrown out[2], because the prosecution couldn't provide enough evidence that the shutters off had done any damage, which sets the stage for a second attempt...
1: https://www.wired.com/story/monkeywrenching-vandals-are-rein...
2: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/climate-...
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#6Isn't this just a fancy name for "reverse" surveillance?
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#7Isn't this just a fancy name for "reverse" surveillance?
From the Wikipedia article
> Inverse surveillance is a subset of sousveillance with a particular emphasis on the "watchful vigilance from underneath...
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#8This 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 don't think "sur-" necessarily means "more power". Here's a bunch of sur-prefixed words in French: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:French_words_prefixe...
My favorite so far on that list "surbooker"--"to overbook"
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#9I 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.
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#10Sousveillance is illegal on London’s TFL network. They show adverts on the screens asking you to report anybody doing it.