Cell-veillance
December 6th, 2006

This USA Today article says “comedian Michael Richards (Kramer of TV’s Seinfeld) launches into a racist rant at a West Los Angeles comedy club. A police officer repeatedly uses a taser gun on a student in the UCLA library. A high school teacher calls a student a homophobic name. Another yells at a student for not standing during the national anthem.These events were captured on small digital cameras or cellphones with video cameras. All were posted on the Internet. And all drew national — even international — attention to events that in years past may have remained relatively contained or even hidden.Welcome to the era of citizen journalism”.

With tiny tech, a video little brother is always watching

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