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I just read about a big demonstration in Berlin against surveillance and data retention. The demo was a few months ago and only got my attention because here was a report that the police filmed the anti-surveillance crowd, partly hidden - partly open.

I read two more articles about this demonstration and got a idea: When the police or government is filming us, we should film back, heavily. But our “surveillance-of-the-surveillants” should be published, unlike their material, on as many video sites as possible. We need as much material as we can get. We should analyze this material and depict and point out even the smallest mistake they make. We should ridiculate police officers and politicians, which are pro surveillance, by posting their smallest quirks, like picking their nose, and of curse the most disturbing acts of them. Officers should no longer feel unobserved, not a single second. They should feel the effects of surveillance, they should be demotivated by the fact that , we should laugh at their smallest accidents and raise attention to their most fearful actions.

We need more data of them, than they have of us. Everybody should try to film/photograph every action of above mentioned politicians and police officers, even with the most crappiest equipment (like poor handy cameras). We can always go further, absolutely monitor their daily routine, were they move, what they eat, when they go on the toilet, with whom they talk and so on. We shall not respect their privacy, as they do not respect ours!

Of course they will try to eliminate out gathered data, but this is were the internet helps us. We can distribute the videos at every possible video upload site (like youtube.com and many others), we can host them ourselves and give away links so that everybody can watch and analyse them.

In my opinion (do NOT take this as a real legal advice) police officers and politicians represent the government, so they can not deny us the right to monitor them. It may even be our duty as a civilian to overlook the actions of our governments.

On the videos/photographs we have to make normal people anonymous, by blurring their face and distorting their voice. Without this disclosure of identity we would be no better than they are.

In Austria, and I guess there exists a equivalent in germany, such an action already started. It is called platterwatch.at and is especially about the Austrian Interior Minister.

It would be awesome if people really start to care about what the government does. Everybody can take actions!