Published On: November 23, 2019

Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash Crowd sourcing is not a new concept and the term was coined around 2005. In nutshell, it allows individuals to participate and complete tasks that are part of a bigger project. Contributing crowd may do it voluntarily or get paid for it. The concept of crowd sourcing is great, as long as it’s used for good cause. For example: Crowd comes together to participate in editing a Wikipedia article to ensure accuracy Using Amazon Mechanical Turk to get paid for doing crowd sourced work Funding a project on Kickstarter Good cause petitions using Change.org And, many other examples However, if crowd sourcing leads to surveillance that too a private one then one should start questioning whether the intentions are good or bad. I came across one such […]