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Even the most fervent proponents of “privacy is dead” are managing their online reputation. Filmmaker Cullen Hoback approached Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outside his home, camera rolling, and asked, “Do you still think privacy is dead? What are your real thoughts on privacy?” Apparently worried about his own privacy, Zuck told Hoback to stop filming, which he did. Zuck relaxed and encouraged him to contact Facebook’s PR people. The exchange was caught on video as Hoback continued to film with a camera built into his spyglasses.
“I just wanted him to say, ‘Look, I don’t want you to record me,’ and I wanted to say, ‘Look, I don’t want you to record us,’” Hoback explained*. The scene is part of his documentary, Terms and Conditions, which vivisects the user agreements and privacy policies that everyone accepts in order to do anything online, and which allow companies to collect, store, and share massive amounts of user data. “I think the craziest thing about this whole experience is that I didn’t realize I was making a horror film,” he said.
A technology that surreptitiously captures data of people out on the street, combines it with other data, and mines it ad infinitum? Local and federal government agencies love it. It’s increasingly sophisticated and cheap. It’s spreading. And it led a professor at West Point to warn: “We don’t have a police state in this country, but we have the technology.”
* ▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10190036/Facebook-founder-Mark-Zuckerberg-secretly-filmed-for-horror-film.html
