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  1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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  2. Cider9986 · · focus · HN ↗
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  3. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
    I guess this is more polite than calling people "ratchet af" for wearing meta glasses.
    1. skulk · · focus · HN ↗
      the wikipedia article for ray ban meta has "pervert glasses" bolded
  4. goodmythical · · focus · HN ↗
    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.

    1. likeclockwork · · focus · HN ↗
      It's about power. Not about resources or entity type.
    2. nephihaha · · focus · HN ↗
      Sousveillance is not that new a word. I remember seeing it at least twenty years ago.
      1. donkey_brains · · focus · HN ↗
        Damn, that’s so cool. I just learned it today! I love when that happens. Now I have all this reading to do!
  5. doginasuit · · focus · HN ↗
    This seems like one of those terms you have to explain every time you say it so people understand you aren't just pronouncing it wrong.
  6. CatMustard · · focus · HN ↗
    In the case of Meta glasses I'd argue that's still surveillance given that a large and powerful tech corp are in control of the hardware and software.
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