goodmythical
11 hours ago
I don't see the need for a new word.
Surveillance is the monitoring of one party by another unaware party.
A company surveilling an individual and an individual surveilling a company is the same activity, despite one perhaps having potentially greater resources.
I don't buy the claim that the root word meaning "above" means that we should mean that we need another word with a root word meaning "below" given that a so called "sousveiller" could in fact be recording from a place of advantage. (Either physically above a company or given the potential scheduling freedom of a dedicated and compelled freelancer.
Is it sousveillance if one were to write a script logging every available source of one other who's registered a company and is the soul employee of said company? e.g. If some neckbeard "sousveills" every post of a sex worker that's working for a company they registered for their own tax purposes?
Clearly not. The first might be suurveillance or possibly spying, and the second is clearly stalking.
nephihaha
6 hours ago
Sousveillance is not that new a word. I remember seeing it at least twenty years ago.
donkey_brains
an hour ago
Damn, that’s so cool. I just learned it today! I love when that happens. Now I have all this reading to do!
likeclockwork
10 hours ago
It's about power. Not about resources or entity type.