Film director Oliver Stone has branded the popular gaming app Pokemon Go a “new level of invasion” of privacy that could lead to “totalitarianism”.
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Director Oliver Stone, best known for his highly charged political movies, was speaking at panel for his upcoming movie Snowden at the Comic Con San Diego today, where he condemned Pokemon Go.
According to Snowden and Huang, the new device will keep a constant watch on whether the antenna of a smartphone is unnecessarily transmitting radio signals.
“It’s the fastest-growing business ever, and they have invested huge amounts of money into what surveillance is, which is data-mining”, Stone told the audience at his first-ever appearance at the four-day sci-fi and fantasy spectacle.
Stone, 69, said the app “kicks into” the surveillance culture and was “everywhere”. The profits are enormous here for places like Google.
In an interview, Edward Snowden emphasized that the new gadget is not just to safeguard journalists in the field, but also to shed public light on government’s surveillance methods to spy on people through their smartphones.
“You’ll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society”.
“We recently discovered that the Pokémon GO account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account”, Niantic said in a statement, assuring users that their activity wasn’t being monitored.
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. It’s what they call totalitarianism. When things will be up and running, Edward Snowden and Huang plan to work with manufacturers in China to make a final production model that would be both open-source and open-hardware.
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Ex-NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden is the whistler blower who leaked the truth behind United Kingdom and USA’s surveillance program in June 2013.
