Close observation or recording of the government, police, etc., by members of the public, typically using personal devices such as video cameras and...OED's earliest evidence for sousveillance is from 2001, in a text by S. Mann and H. Niedzviecki.How is the noun sousveillance pronounced? BRITISH ENGLISH /suːˈveɪləns/ soo-VAY-luhns /suːˈveɪln̩s/ soo-VAY-luhns U.S. ENGLISH /suˈveɪləns/ soo-VAY-luhns
Sousveillance is a borrowing from French.
Etymons: French sousveillance.
2001 It is possible that society would do well to place certain large organizations under greater scrutiny than a shopper at the local convenience store or someone walking down a public sidewalk. I call this public scrutiny of establishments/government ‘sousveillance’.S. Mann & H. Niedzviecki, Cyborg
2002:
"Sousveillance, not just surveillance, in response to terrorism", Steve Mann, Chair et Métal, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2002 March 1.
http://wearcam.org/chairetmetal_war_of_the_wires_corrected.htm
2002/2003:
Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments.
Published Sep 1, 2002
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v1i3.3344
Steve Mann Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Toronto. Jason Nolan Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto. Barry Wellman Sociology, University of Toronto.https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/3344
Surveillance & Society, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2003
Other related concepts include coveillance (ACM MM 2004) and Metaveillance (Metavision).
See also these 3 papers on Veillance, as well as This paper on Metaveillance and Big Data is a big lie without little data: Humanistic intelligence as a human right.
Joshua Gans and Steve Mann also wrote about the lies and truth of surveillance and sousveillance: When the camera lies....
See also this video: Wearable Computing and the Veillance Contract.
See also the wearable face-recognizer paper in AAAI 1996:
Mann, Steve. "Wearable, tetherless computer–mediated reality: WearCam as a wearable face–recognizer, and other applications for the disabled." Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities. Vol. 11., Pages 62-69, 1996.
reached out to office not a student, they worked, were working.
wrote to me with gmail.
concern about something.
not you or the lab.
says worked for steve mann, were in your course.
is what they're telling me true or not.
personal wellbeing check-in.