• DocumentCode
    3726789
  • Title

    Declaration of veillance (Surveillance is Half-Truth)

  • Author

    Steve Mann;Ryan Janzen;Mir Adnan Ali;Ken Nickerson

  • Author_Institution
    Veillance Foundation, 330 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1G5
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A core problem humanity faces today - underlying failing economies and governments, widespread corruption, and systems interoperability disasters - comes from a lack of integrity. We live in a world where organizations seek to know everything about us, yet reveal substantially nothing about themselves. This is a world of hypocrisy, which is the opposite of integrity. Hypocrisy is evident in entities which use surveillance cameras, while simultaneously forbidding others from taking pictures, or wearing a camera, such as a computer-based seeing aid. This combination of watching and concealment establishes a condescending or abusive dynamic. In terms of "Games People Play" from the theory of Transactional Analysis, this is what psychologists call a "We´re OK, you´re not OK" relationship. In response to these one-sided "(sur)veillance games" our governments and industry leaders impose on us, we propose key principles for information-gathering, reporting, and sensing (i.e. "veillance") under control of all individuals - The Declaration of Veillance, Version 1.0.
  • Keywords
    "Cameras","Surveillance","Sensors","Games","Privacy","Government","Wearable computers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Games Entertainment Media Conference (GEM), 2015 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GEM.2015.7377257
  • Filename
    7377257