Openwatch – turn the tables on surveillance
We are all subject to scrutiny and surveillance – on the part of governments and corporations. It’s time to balance that very one-sided state of affairs and put surveillance at the service of the public. It can be done now with OpenWatch, a software that allows your mobile phone to do the recording, and to publish it anonymously.
OpenWatch is a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures…The surveillance state has arrived and it is here to stay. The benefit to society in terms of security and justice is too great for it to ever go away. There is a problem, however, and the problem is not the technology. The problem is the lopsided distribution of who is in control of that technology. Surveillance technology is currently only in the hands of those who are already in power, which means it cannot be used to combat the largest problem facing modern society: abuse of power.
Via Openwatch for Counter-Surveillance
See the video explaining how it works.
About the OpenWatch project
About the OpenWatch Project from OpenWatch on Vimeo.
