Who Will Watch the Watchers?
With the US Congress recently passing the FISA wiretapping bill, its apparent that we have little, if any, privacy left. What we can do, as some out there like Steve Mann argue, is for us to watch them, watch us. This is the whole idea of “Sousveillance” where citizens deploy technology to “watch from below”.
“The familiar storyline of science fiction is the evil dystopia – the totalitarian society of the future in which large, faceless government agencies and corporations use sophisticated technologies to pry into every corner of our lives. The goal is to neutralize dissent and shield the exercise of power from accountability. However necessary at times, surveillance is a crude display of power, a unilateral override of the “consent of the governed.”"
