Comments on: The Hub: Peter Gabriel brings us global sousveillance http://idealgovernment.com/2007/03/the_hub_peter_gabriel_brings_us_global_sousveillance/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Richard S http://idealgovernment.com/2007/03/the_hub_peter_gabriel_brings_us_global_sousveillance/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 Richard S Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:45:15 +0000 http://the_hub_peter_gabriel_brings_us_global_sousveillance#comment-1523 "how do you upload and distribute video clips via the internet, taken in a police state or war zone...?" Non-technical people use something like [url=http://www.dynebolic.org/]Dyne:Bolics Linux[/url]. “how do you upload and distribute video clips via the internet, taken in a police state or war zone…?”

Non-technical people use something like [url=http://www.dynebolic.org/]Dyne:Bolics Linux[/url].

]]> By: Watching Them, Watching Us http://idealgovernment.com/2007/03/the_hub_peter_gabriel_brings_us_global_sousveillance/comment-page-1/#comment-1522 Watching Them, Watching Us Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:17:23 +0000 http://the_hub_peter_gabriel_brings_us_global_sousveillance#comment-1522 The Witness.org website seems very slick and professional. However it does not seem address any of the privacy and security issues that, say, the <a href="http://wikileaks.org">WikiLeaks.org</a> project is supposed to i.e. how do you upload and distribute video clips via the internet, taken in a police state or war zone, without getting yourself , or your family or associates, arrested, tortured or killed ? There should be tools for <strong>removing</strong> video camera or digital camera or mobile phone camera or computer specific metadata, not just tools for adding extra metadata to help classify the archive of clips. Some of the same <a href="http://spyblog.org.uk/2007/01/is_wikileaksorg_the_right_idea_for_a_whistleblowing_website.html">questions about the ethical issues</a>, the funding of, and possible political and legal attacks on the scheme, which are not well answered by the Wikilieaks.org project, also seem relevant to this Witness.org project See also the <a href="http://WikiLeak.org">WikiLeak.org</a> blog The Witness.org website seems very slick and professional.

However it does not seem address any of the privacy and security issues that, say, the WikiLeaks.org project is supposed to i.e. how do you upload and distribute video clips via the internet, taken in a police state or war zone, without getting yourself , or your family or associates, arrested, tortured or killed ?

There should be tools for removing video camera or digital camera or mobile phone camera or computer specific metadata, not just tools for adding extra metadata to help classify the archive of clips.

Some of the same questions about the ethical issues, the funding of, and possible political and legal attacks on the scheme, which are not well answered by the Wikilieaks.org project, also seem relevant to this Witness.org project

See also the WikiLeak.org blog

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