Tuesday 9 November 2010

Leeds film festival : Waking up in a surveillance society

I though that this film was particularly releveant to the lecture the other day and definitely worth going to see.
Article 12 presents an urgent and incisive deconstruction of the current state of privacy, the rights and desires of individuals and governments, and the increasing use of surveillance. The film adopts the twelfth article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to chart privacy issues worldwide, arguing that without this right no other human right can truly be exercised. It assembles leading academics and cultural analysts including Noam Chomsky, AC Grayling and Amy Goodman to highlight the devastating potency of surveillance, the dangers of complicity, and the growing movement fighting for this crucial right.

Read more: http://www.leedsfilm.com/film/article-12-waking-up-in-a-surveillance-society/#ixzz14oaraVkp




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