“They’ve invested a huge amount of money in data mining what you are buying, what you like, your behaviour”.
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Given the subject matter, the topic of privacy came up quickly, and Stone voiced an objection to the current hot trend for people running around playing Pokemon Go, and not because he’s having trouble finding a Mewtwo.
Pokemon Go utilizes the Global Positioning System in smartphones to track users wherever they go, which Stone does not see as a good thing.
‘The profits are enormous here for places like Google, ‘ he said. “It’s the newest stage”, he said.
Director Oliver Stone warned during his panel for Snowden that the Pokemon Go craze represents “a new level of invasion” that could lead to totalitarianism.
“You’ll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society”, he added.
“It’s everywhere. It’s what some people call surveillance capitalism”.
It’s scheduled to release on September 16, 2016 by Open Road Films.
Speaking to a small audience comprised mostly of journalists, Snowden said there wasn’t a lot of fictionalization in the film, which chronicles his life from 2004 to 2013, when he leaked classified security documents to the press.
The fugitive NSA whistleblower about the USA government’s surveillance program was asked what he thought of Gordon-Levitt’s performance in playing him. The device, dubbed “introspection engine”, would be a plastic case created to slide over an Apple iPhone 6, and will monitor the phone’s internal antennas to detect incoming and outgoing signals from the cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Global Positioning System chips, alerting users of any snooping attempt.
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.
This had allowed threat actors to track the phone’s location via cell towers and secretly transmit data from the phone when the user thought his device was in airplane mode or shut down.
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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.
