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World Sousveillance Day

Posted by timothy on from the joining-our-program-already-in-progress dept.

Sousveillance Cyborg writes: "Sousveillance is inverse surveillance, and a worldwide community of cyborgs is promoting sousveillance as a way toward more privacy and less secrecy. Today is World Sousveillance Day (WSD). See http://wearcam.org/wsd.htm. Transmitting live from around the world at noon (moving with time zone)."

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  1. Re:It's a bit late to announce this by digitalunity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's your point? Did you even read the article? no? That's what I thought. Why don't you go read the article and come back later.

    I did however read it and there are a few scary points brought out. What do I think? I think I want a "Federal Government Comment Card".

    Here's a link to some interesting things about the governemt that most people don't know.

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    You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
  2. Re:It's a bit late to announce this by bani · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Willson's essays on depleted uranium and "alternative" medicine are barking mad, and put a huge question mark above all his other essays.

    The essays may be "interesting", but that doesn't mean there is any more truth to them than the X-Files.

  3. Re: Missed the point? I don't think I did. by Tsar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You post the question "Where's the accountability?" — anonymously?

    Did you see the Sousveillance video? He's not doing exposés of concealed cameras in dressing rooms; he's strolling through department stores, asking employees idiotic questions about the "mysterious dark domes" in the ceiling as if they were part some massive coverup, and none of the poor idiots (non-University of Toronto CE students) around him were totally unaware that they were being watched in a department store. It inspires no social change (except perhaps more stores banning video cameras), and has no effect outside of feeding his overinflated ego. This is nothing more than stupid camera tricks posing as citizen activism.

    While we're on the subject, let's throw it out to the group—how would you like this guy to walk into your employer's business and start following you around with a camcorder? "Why do I have to have a password to use one of these computers? What are those weird white boxes with red lights in the corners of the ceiling? Why is the server room locked? Why did you call the police?" Seems pretty juvenile when you think about it.