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Article 12: Waking up in a surveillance society
Directed byJuan Manuel Biaiñ
Written byJuan Manuel Biaiñ
Produced byJuan Manuel Biaiñ
CinematographyGuillermo Nieto
Edited byAlex Rodriguez
Nigel Galt
Music byDiego Vainer
Production
company
DOCFACTORY & Junco Films
Release dates
Locarno International Film Festival:
Agust 10, 2010
Switzeland
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Article 12 presents a sharp look at the current state of privacy and debates around the rights and desires of individuals, governments, terrorism and the increasing accessibility and use of surveillance.


Synopsis

The film is a thought-provoking exposé on our current obsession with voyeurism, surveillance technologies, power and control. Starting from our own private spying habits, Article 12 examines how vulnerable and exposed we have become in our relationship to each other and as a society and talks about those who are gaining from this condition.

The film uses the twelfth article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to chart the current state of privacy around the world, arguing that without the right to privacy no other human right can truly be exercised.

The film brings together the world’s leading academics, philosophers, cultural figures and technologists to highlight the devastating potency of surveillance and the dangers of public and individual complicity, and presents a growing movement fighting for the upkeep of our right to privacy. Article 12 confronts these issues head-on to provide a powerful wake-up call as we sleepwalk into a worldwide surveillance society.

Interviews

Noam Chomsky, Writer & Political Activist, MIT, United States. Simon Davies, Human Rights Activist, Founder & Director Privacy International, United Kingdom. Whitfield Diffie, Mathematician & Cryptographer, Ex-Vice President Sun Microsystems, United States. Brian Eno, Composer & Political Activist, United Kingdom. Kate Gilmore, Sociologist Exec. Dep. Sec.General, Amnesty International, United Kingdom. Emmanuel Goldstein, Hacker & Broadcaster, Founder 2600: The Hacker Quarterly Magazine, United States. Amy Goodman, Investigative Journalist, Founder & Host Democracy Now!, United States. A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom. John Lettice, Journalist, Founder The Register, United Kingdom. Dr. David Murakami-Wood, Professor of Sociology, Founder, Surveillance Studies Network, United Kingdom. Oxblood Ruffin, Hacktivist, Foreign Minister Cult of the Dead Cow, Canada. Phillip Zimmerman, Data Security Specialist, Cryptographer and Founder Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), United States.


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