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Location enabled body‑worn cameras are used
widely in sports, medicine, health sciences, utility
services, agriculture, manufacturing, engineering,
policing, armed services, emergency services, con‑
struction, and transport in an international education
and training context.
In many of these cases the premise for deployment
of these technologies is to build upon and improve
existing work practices, selected by seemingly well‑
informed and trusted technical experts, substantially
guided by organizational policy and secure data man‑
agement plans pursuant. The interoperability between
these location‑aware body‑worn technologies now
opens new domains of socio‑ethical consideration as
to the effects that an always‑on network will have on
humanity as a whole.
Educators will need to shift to a networked learn‑
ing theory for the digital age, a connectivism [8] so
profound the very architectures of educational par‑
ticipation are set to become only but a loosely bound
accreditation arrangement.
"It is widely understood that the area of digi‑
tal technologies in education covers education
through digital technologies. However, it must
also, crucially, encompass education about
digital technologies, and particularly about
their social, sociopolitical and ecological con‑
sequences" [9].
The general public will need to embrace change in
policing and the justice system more rapidly than ever
to accommodate a cyborg cop, an omnipresent jury
and a recollection of events frame by frame. Our role
has changed from a passive participant in an abstract
recollection to a first‑person perspective, where we
have become the camera and it has become us [10], in
essence a state of Uberveillance [11].
The IEEE SSIT ISTAS'13 Symposium on Tech‑
nology & Society [12], June 27‑29, 2013,will further
inform this perspective from a transdisciplinary
gathering of world authorities in wearable smart
technologies and the socio‑ethical implications of
wearable computing and augmediated reality in
everyday life.

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Author Information
Alexander Hayes is completing a Doctor of philoso‑
phy (phD) degree at the University of Wollongong,
Faculty of Informatics, SISAT Australia. presently,
Hayes is also a Visiting researcher in the Depart‑
ment of Media at the Aalto University School of Arts,
Design and Architecture, Finland.

Acknowledgment
A preliminary version of this article appeared in the
December 2012 edition of The Social Interface blog.
The article has been significantly updated as a result
of comments received.

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