Infamous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang have presented today at MIT’s Media Lab a new concept for an iPhone hardware case that will prevent surveillance via radio signals.
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Snowden now lives in Russian Federation, and Stone met with him a number of times in Moscow, trying to gain his trust and decide whether to take on the project.
Stone, best known for directing films like Natural Born Killers, Platoon and Wall Street, recently put out 2012’s Savages starring Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Blake Lively and John Travolta.
The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.
Taking his comments further, Stone said that apps like Pokemon GO could eventually lead humanity towards a dystopian-esque “robot society”. The profits are enormous here for places like Google.
It’s the biggest, new fastest-growing business ever, and they have invested huge amounts of money into what surveillance is, which is data-mining.
The location-based augmented reality game became an overnight sensation on its release earlier this month, although it has been criticised for requesting users’ Google browsing history and email.
Over at San Diego Comic-Con, the brand new trailer for Snowden has been released. “It’s what you call totalitarianism”. “But (actors) can reach new audiences in new ways and get people talking about things that they don’t have time to read (or) to look for in the academic setting”.
Snowden will be released in the U.S. in September, with a United Kingdom release date yet to be confirmed.
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Snowden, former NSA and CIA contractor, began leaking classified intelligence documents in June 2013, revealing the extent of the NSA’s spying activities, including the massive collections of phone records of Americans and foreign nationals as well as political leaders around the world. A United Kingdom date is yet to be announced, however.
