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This is a quite interesting social evaluation of automated surveillance, Ruben. I particularly like how your approach questions the role of the "average citizen" in this power relation, beyond the duality of victim and guilt (or indifference, but I would question that this is the right word for our attitude).

Like Maya above, I think it would be useful to consider the social and participatory surveillance that, according to some (see, for example, Alice Marwick (https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/pub_dom) and our colleague's Anders work on participatory surveillance(https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/2142/1949#author)). They both underline social practices, like gossip, which denote a sort of positive surveillance, that acts as a useful comparison to the more traditional surveillance based on "deviance".

I also really like the idea that we co-produce normality, which in some way grants us some agency in contemporary surveillance. I wonder if, in the age of automated surveillance, creativity or novelty are necessarily "tagged" or identified as "deviancy"?