Sousveillance - in Literature

In Literature

• We (novel) by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
• 1984.
• The Light of Other Days – A novel set in a world with a complete lack of privacy; anyone can view the activities of anyone or anything else, including looking into the past.
• The Transparent Society.
• Lacey and His Friends – A novel set in a world where nothing is private, where privacy is illegal and where private acts are monitored by camera continuously. Some of these records are unavailable except to authorized investigators. Small exceptions for passwords and other authorization systems are allowed (boxes over keyboards), etc. David Drake basically envisions a world without any privacy whatsoever, where the privacy of the powerful is regarded as a threat by the society.
• The Neanderthal Parallax – A parallel-worlds novel, in which Neanderthals inhabit the alternate Earth. Their justice system (and part of the plot) depends on an embedded forearm implant that continuously records everything in your environment and transmits it to the alibi archive, accessible by your word or by court order. Thus any observer or close relative of a victim can report a crime and open that part of the archive to investigators, effectively ending most serious crime.
• Earth – A novel set in the future, where personal cameras are ubiquitous and privacy is at best rare and often unavailable.
• Freeze Frame – Is a film featuring Sousveillance.
• The Final Cut – Another film featuring sousveillance.
• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 novel features characters whose profession of Fair Witness serves the function to act as human cameras to impartially observe and recall, but not interact in, events and human interactions, thus serving as a functional sort of sousveillance.
• Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds's 2012 novel where Earth and most of the Solar System are "The Surveilled World". The only unsurveilled areas where people live are under the Earth's oceans and on the dark side of the Moon.