[LINK] One-eyed documentary maker - inserting camera

[Roger Clarke]

At 11:57 +1100 12/3/09, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/12/1236447354395.html
>A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video
>camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye ...
Jan continued:
>This seems really not right. Not telling people he's recording them?
>What happens in men's rooms? [I'm assuming he wouldn't be in women's
>toilets.] Bedroom? Change rooms? Private homes?

On Steve Mann's sousveillance generally:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
http://wearcam.org/sousveillance.htm
http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385658256
http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~mann/


But a quick search didn't find much on the ethics of souveillance.

Could you point us to such items please Steve?  (I hope you're well, 
and that you don't mind indirect and disembodied greetings like this 
one!).


Here's one item:
http://idtrail.org/content/view/206/42/


Investigations have been undertaken in literary genres:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance#See_also

[I rate David Brin's 'The Transparent Society' as depending heavily 
on 'novellist's licence' too.  Police won't knowingly permit 
souveillers inside their control rooms (etc.), don't facilitate 
recognition by wearing name-tags, and do wear kit that masks their 
faces - for physical protection *and* obfuscation of identity.]


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