Widespread smartphone recording makes harmful institutional practices harder to conceal

Evidence

Individuals with smartphone cameras record events and evidence revealing harmful organizational and institutional practices, then upload the videos to the Internet for instant worldwide viewing. With ready public surveillance it is getting harder to conceal harmful activities as they are performed. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2981

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: Interesting counter-current: mass surveillance cameras cut both ways — they also enable state and platform surveillance of citizens. Worth exploring how citizen sousveillance scales against institutional power.