The film director Oliver Stone has warned that augmented reality game Pokémon Go could lead society toward totalitarianism.
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Director Oliver Stone accuses Pokemon GO of being a massive security threat during a panel for his upcoming film Snowden at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. It’s the fastest-growing business ever, and they have invested huge amounts of money into what surveillance is, which is data-mining.
“They are data mining every person in this room”, he said.
So what does all that have to do with Pokemon Go?
People may think that they can just turn their iPhone off or put the device inside a Faraday bag to stop all the signals.
Niantic, the developers behind the sensational new app that already has more users than Twitter, according a recent report, released the first update for the game earlier this week, correcting the “Google account scope” of the game when it asks for access to users’ Google profile information, including e-mails and passwords. “It’s what they call totalitarianism”.
Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. The biographical drama, which was produced by Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle, is set to be released in theaters nationwide on September 16.
Snowden will be released in the USA in September, with a United Kingdom release date yet to be confirmed.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has helped to develop a smartphone case created to protect privacy by constantly checking whether one’s phone is transmitting data via radio signal. It will keep a constant check on the handset’s internal antennas to detect incoming and outgoing signals from the cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Global Positioning System chips.
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The case will also include a small screen to keep the user up to date with anything that the phone is transmitting. It then can directly monitor radio transmissions, alert users to any unauthorized output when the radios are meant to be off, and even offer a kill-switch to immediately shut off the device.
