sousveillance (undersight)

• sousveillance is inverse surveillance
• french for "undersight" (opposite of surveillance which is french for "oversight")
• necessary to ensure quality... examples:
  • 1800 number "am i driving ok" (on truck);
  • student eval forms for professor
  • democracy in general.
  • citizens keeping a watch on their government and police forces
  • taxi passengers keeping tabs on drivers
  • shoppers keeping tabs on shopkeepers (misleading advertising, unsafe fire exits, etc.)
• good drivers, professors, teachers, government officals, and police welcome sousveillance because it ensures their integrity.
• bad drivers, professors, teachers, government officals, and police oppose sousveillance.
• sousveillance is necessary to prevent crime, corruption, terrorims, etc.
• building sousveillance infrastructure into a government, a police force, military, or the like, will ensure integrity, and ensure that surveillance is balanced.
• societies with surveillance only (e.g. no sousveillance) are unstable and tend toward totalitarianism (e.g. overthrow of government, or takeover, martial law, etc.).
• world sousveillance foundation: seeks to ensure that there is at least some sousveillance to balance recent increases in surveillance.