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)?
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#63This 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
When those vids were first made I thought it wasn't very good at making a point because, a guy walking up to you with a camera and just sitting there with it is obviously quite creepy.
But why is it creepy?...because I don't know what he'll do with that video and it just establishes a weird dynamic to the situation.
But then why am I okay with a camera in the ceiling?
I suppose the alternative would be actual eyes, say if a convenience store had the budget for that, an equivalent to their ceiling-cams would be a security guys watching you and everyone else as they shop.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
It kind of ticks me off that people lose their collective "sh##" when things like Google Glass and Narrative help to give power to the civilian to record things in an unobtrusive manner but that people are totally fine with the ubiquitous billions of eye-in-the-sky surveillance cameras (see London) that the government uses to watch us every second.
> ticks me off that people lose their collective shit when things like Google Glass [record ubiquitously but] people are totally fine with the ubiquitous billions of eye-in-the-sky surveillance cameras The overlap between the “people” who don’t like Google to record their lives and the “people” who don’t care if the police do it is quite small... But in any case the police in a democracy are at least nominally accoun…
I appreciate the response, and I'm not trying to be sarcastic but the operative word here is "nominally". While it's nice in theory to view law enforcement and the government as some kind of trustworthy body whose purpose is to serve and protect, in reality that kind of power is often abused.
Look how long it took for bodycams on police to be used and even then, they get conveniently broken, battery dies, or just blatently turned off.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? and all that.
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#65I'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, i…
If the iON could sync/backup the images to your phone at regular intervals, maybe something like IFTTT could be used in conjunction to upload the images to a private server...
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#66I 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.
I got a narrative pretty early on, it's not bad but unfortunately in the last year the battery life has absolutely tanked on it, lasting only 2 hours max at this point, and as this the custom today, completely non-removable.
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#67The 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
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does distribution of military power really lead to public benefit? Concentration in the wrong hands is the problem. distribution of small arms to local gangs, paramilitary mercenaries The local gangs and paramilitaries in those situations represent local concentrations of power, not disbursement. Local warlords rule because they are armed in particular. If they didn't have an advantage over the general populace, they…
> Local warlords rule because they are armed in particular. If they didn't have an advantage over the general populace, they wouldn't be ruling it. This claim does not seem well supported by evidence. We can look at otherwise largely comparable places where either small arms are largely limited to police/military or where small arms are broadly distributed, and violence is generally much higher in the latter. Giving…
Yes and the propaganda was highly effective politically, leading to terrible policy outcomes.
The same can be true for highly centralized news media. That's one of the points made in Manufacturing Consent.
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#69I 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.
Have you perhaps considered that recording people unobtrusively without their consent may be unethical or, at the minimum, rude?
Do you live in a country where smartphones don't exist and nobody uses them? I regularly notice people outside taking photos/videos with their phones (or digital camera) where unsuspecting individuals are in the background. I have made it a habit to try and ruin these people's pictures when I'm in the shot by making ugly faces/hand signs.
Relatedly, in Austria there was a court case several years ago where somebody sued a photographer for taking his picture in public, arguing that it was making fun of his character (Belustigung) and to everyone's surprise, he won the case.
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#70I 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.
Have you perhaps considered that recording people unobtrusively without their consent may be unethical or, at the minimum, rude?
you mean, like they do in almost every single retail establishment you enter? Or do you mean like on the streets?
do you realize that your statement also implies it's "rude" and "unethical" to take a photo in a public place if there's anyone in the frame you didn't ask permission of?
Modern society has very much accepted that recording people unobtrusively without their consent is 100% ok. Not only does no-one refuse to go into an establishment that may record them without their consent, no-one gets upset when you take a selfie in public and capture the people behind you, or when you take a picture in a public park (or whatever) with many people in it.
The problem, and I speak from experience here, is when you actually make people actively aware of the fact that a person they know is taking pictures that include them when they're not paying attention to the camera.
Most people do not care that faceless entities are taking their photos and video of them without their consent. If they did, they wouldn't keep allowing their legislators to pass laws allowing this practice.