ADDRESSING PERVASIVE SURVEILLANCE at the Open Source Sensing Initiative. “This is an open source-style project with the goal of bringing the benefits of a bottom-up, decentralized approach to sensing for security and environmental purposes. The intent of the project is to take advantage of advances in sensing to improve both security and the environment, while preserving — even strengthening — privacy, freedom, and civil liberties.”
This seems consistent with some thoughts of mine, and — more significantly — David Brin’s.