During a panel for his new movie “Snowden” in the first day of San DiegoComic-Con 2016, the director was asked about the app, and called it “a new level of invasion”, and said it could lead to totalitarianism.
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While attention returns to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden following the launch of the latest trailer for his semi-biopic film, the real Snowden has been working on an anti-NSA iPhone case.
Snowden actor Zachary Quinto has addressed the film’s director Oliver Stone’s controversial comments about Pokemon Go, admitting he agrees that we should be promoting interaction without the use of technology. “Google has invested in what surveillance is, data mining, which is about what you’re watching, what you’re buying, and Pokemon GO taps into that”, Stone said.
Three-time Oscar victor Mr Stone, 69, said Pokemon Go “kicks into” the surveillance culture and was ‘everywhere’. But the search for profits is enormous here.
He warned that society is now being run under “surveillance capitalism” where companies monitor people’s behaviour. It’s the newest stage.
LOS ANGELES (AP) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will be live-streamed from his exile in Moscow in theaters nationwide following a special screening of the Oliver Stone film “Snowden” on September 14. A United Kingdom date is yet to be announced, however.
The phone-mounted battery case contains a measurement tool to constantly check on whether the handset’s internal antennae are sending signals.
Co-designed with hardware hacking expert Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, a mock-up of the unusual case was unveiled over a video link to an event held at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The device would come with a small mono-color screen that will flash an alert when it detects a transmission that shouldn’t be taking place.
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The design could be upgraded to become a “kill switch” which will cut the power supply to the phone if the device is still transmitting signals even after the owner has turned it off.
