Sousveillance

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:11 PM -0500 12/11/06, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>When did this arrive?  It seems to have been
>talked about in Wikipedia in March 2004.

As long as it's not confused with upskirt hidden cam practices...

LH

>>From another list:
>>Surveillance, from the French for "watching
>>over," refers to the monitoring of people by
>>some higher authority — the police, for
>>insttance. Now there's sousveillance, or
>>"watching from below." It refers to the reverse
>>tactic: the monitoring of authorities
>>(<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/tony_blair/index.html?inline=nyt-per>Tony
>>Blair, for instance) by informal networks of
>>regular people, equipped with little more than
>>cellphone cameras, video blogs and the desire to
>>remain vigilant against the excesses of the powers that be.
>><http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3b.t-3.html>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3b.t-3.html
>
>Joel
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