Join us Sunday June 15, 730PM, Screening of Terms and Conditions May Apply, directed by Cullen Hoback at Olandar in Malibu. Discussion to follow. RSVP on FB for more info and directions. Admit it: you dont really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your secrets... and are not only selling the information to the highest bidder, but freely sharing it with the government. And you agreed to all of it. With fascinating examples and so-unbelievable-theyre-almost-funny facts, filmmaker Cullen Hoback exposes what governments and corporations are legally taking from you every day - turning the future of both privacy and civil liberties uncertain. From whistle blowers and investigative journalists to zombie fan clubs and Egyptian dissidents, this disquieting exposé demonstrates how every one of us has incrementally opted-in to a real-time surveillance state, click by click- and what, if anything, can be done about it. Watch the trailer: https://youtube/watch?v=yzyafieRcWE From Mark Weinstein on Huffington Post: ... For his revelatory film, Hoback may indeed become a true folk hero, without the confusing stigma of an Assange or Snowden. Hobacks film takes us down a rabbit hole to try and answer the question: Is privacy dead?In the process, he exposes us to a massive civil liberties nightmare. As Hoback pointed out in a recent article, Silicon Valley knows that anonymity isnt profitable. This has driven Internet monoliths such as Google and Facebook to turn the Internet into a cog that turns us into a real-time surveillance state and George Orwell into an historian and prognosticator instead of an acclaimed fiction writer. How did we as a culture consent to such behavior? According to the film, you need look no farther than those pesky terms and conditions you never read that come with every app you download and every website you visit. By clicking the I Agree button, you blindly assent to hand over your life and interests to billion-dollar corporations to do with it what they may. Oftentimes, this means selling your information to the highest bidder or sharing it with your government. Most of us never even realize it. Our government does, Republicans and Democrats alike, but does nothing about it. After all, this data is a treasure trove they can access by simply reaching into the data candy bowl collected by Facebook, Google, and company. The spirited documentary weaves through popular television and movie clips, privacy experts and interviews with those whove shared too much on the Internet and, consequently, landed on the wrong side of the law. No one gets off scott-free, especially not Mark Zuckerberg whom Hoback confronts in a darkly comedic conversation at the films climax. Hoback told AFP: I just wanted him to say, Look, I dont want you to record me, and I wanted to say, Look, I dont want you to record us. Hoback doesnt think all Internet companies are evil by the way. He cites Twitter and Reddit as two companies he thinks that handle user privacy well. He also recently tweeted that if you are looking for a more private social network, you should try Sgrouples because their privacy policy reads like a privacy policy should. I think thats because Sgrouples Privacy Bill of Rights clearly outlines user privacy rights in less than 200 words, as opposed to the thousands upon thousands of words of legal mumbo-jumbo that typical sites run. In fact, the film points out that for typical Internet users, it would take 180 hours -- the equivalent of one full month of work a year -- to fully read all the terms and conditions attached to their favorite websites. It is the entire misbegotten path the film illuminates that Sgrouples, with its revolutionary privacy policy and excellent revenue model is positioned to refute.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:47:10 +0000
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