sousveillance

noun
/suːˈveɪləns/

Etymology

Coined by Canadian wearable computing researcher and professor Steve Mann, from surveillance and French sous (“under”) (as opposed to sur (“over”) as in surveillance).

Definitions

  1. The recording of an activity from the perspective of participant in the activity.

  2. Countersurveillance, inverse surveillance.

    • This paper describes using wearable computing devices to perform "sousveillance" (inverse surveillance) as a counter to organizational surveillance.
    • Article XIV. Sousveillance laws should be enacted to ensure that all members of peaceful communities feel safe, to achieve governmental transparency, and to provide counter-balances to any surveillance state.
  3. Veillance by the masses, of the dominant entities.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sousveillance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA