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Welcome to OpenWatch, a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures.

COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Welcome to OpenWatch, a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures.

OpenWatch is a participatory citizen media project which uses mobile technology to enable public monitoring of authority figures.

About the OpenWatch Project from OpenWatch on Vimeo.

OpenWatch.net is the web counterpart to the Cop Recorder and OpenWatch Recorder applications for Android and iPhone. The apps, which secretly record media, then anonymously upload it are available for download here.

To browse all of the recordings submitted by OpenWatch contributors, click here to see the Media gallery.

To read more about the OpenWatch philosophy, technology and ways you can get involved, visit the about page.