Mass surveillance is surveillance of the masses, not surveillance by the masses.
Surveillance by the masses makes surveillance of the masses trivially easy.
Only if the masses conveniently store all their audio and video records in locations that you can easily and cheaply access.
EDIT: added the "rights of parents" and "simulation hypothesis" research interests.
I've started a lot of research projects and have a lot of research interests that I don't currently have time to develop on my own. So I'm putting the research interests together on this page, and anyone can let me know if they're interested in doing any joint projects on these topics. This can range from coauthoring, to simply having a conversation about these and seeing where that goes.
The possible research topics are: