In the shadow of 9/11, in the wake of the Arab Spring, rioting in the UK and various other global events either classified as terrorism, freedom uprising or just misguided youth, one industry that has been constant and growing is video cameras.
Whether its been surveillance or sousveillance we capture billions of images and stream days upon days worth of video daily. Here are the distinctions between the two;
Surveillance (in the context of this article) :observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment (such as CCTV cameras); it is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a surreptitious manner.
Sousveillance (in the context of this article): typically involves community-based recording from first person perspectives, without necessarily involving any specific political agenda, whereas inverse-surveillance is a form of sousveillance that is typically directed at, or used to collect data to analyze or study, surveillance or its proponents (e.g., the actions of police at a protest rally).
So where is it all lead? Interesting article on the Post 9/11 surveillance.