People You May Know. An FT Film written by James Graham

We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice.
Written by James Graham.
Actors Lydia West and Arthur Darvill.
Directed and produced by Juliet Riddell.
Edited and produced by Tom Hannen.
Cinematography by Franklin Dow.
Composer: Tristan Cassel-Delavois.
Additional filming by Petros Gioumpasis.
LiDAR & Graphics by ScanLAB Projects.
Supported by Luminate.
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[@ArtLoverScotland]

I am watching this now in 2024 - imagine where this is at NOW!!!

[@Nailnuke]

Me too, it's coming! Unless the masses wake up!!!

[@jackiejohnston4633]

I felt sick watching this. So glad I'm old and on my way out of this.

[@silverdm123]

If you’ve got kids then share this and any other anti control media. We are the 99%

[@livkao]

With series like this, I should cancel my Netflix subscription! Nice ,short, and informative film with an amazing storytelling sequence. Love it.

[@johnnybravohonk6964]

Would you close local store just because it also sells candies which lead people to diabetes? Naaah. Just watch "nutricious" movies and series. I can recommend Electric Dreams (not available on Netflix though).

[@olivergrayread]

I thought Black Mirror was supposed to be about potential near future scenarios rather than the actual present

[@cybernition]

nope, movies and books and all that is just 'predictive programming' i.e. they are telling the masses what is coming and movies make it look like a smooth transition

[@olivergrayread]

@@cybernition think that's a bit cart before the horse if you don't mind me saying

[@cybernition]

@@olivergrayread well sure i don't mind, but if you look at how much of the movies plots from the 90s are becoming reality by the day, including black mirror today as we speak, I hope you can agree to a point where in a way we create movies and then they create us :)

[@acasccseea4434]

it's the past, IBM has been able to predict to a 95% accuracy where and when you are going to be within a 15min time slot, within 5m square. up to 2 months in advance (if you're American) this was 2016 (look at their marketing material from way back then), that was before all these AI stuff made pattern recognition much easier. humans are much dumber than most of us want to be, not that computers are getting smarter

[@EdgarAmara]

Now this, this is something I never thought I'd see: informative journalism on stories that impact me conveyed sublimly and dare I say.... entertainingly? Kudos to the actors as well!

[@j.j.1064]

Big brother knows I watched this video. Time for the two minutes hate.

[@Accomplice23]

Very Black Mirror-esque. I love it 💗

[@jeffsterling2809]

It's spot on ain't it, we are living in black mirror

[@wallaceguy]

Very successful expansion into a new kind of creative and thought provoking content by the FT that highlights one of the most important issues in our society. Good work and hope for more like this.

[@CarolReidCA]

Hope this surveillance state is stopped. We need to get this out of our homes, our schools, our skies, our lives.

[@tonebonetones]

'very successful'......? Send me a bottle of what you're drinking?

[@wallaceguy]

@@tonebonetones yes, for the FT which is traditionally focussed on quite dry economic analysis I thought this was a successful attempt at new content. Not to your taste?

[@Changenow-ze2sl]

Its called propaganda. Not that they were not already doing it though.

[@danielharrison8053]

I didn't get it at all

[@Elysia63]

I really miss your acting, Arthur! 😢😭 I wish there could be more!!!

[@sandscribbler]

Nicely-written, well-acted (nailed those accents! 😂), and memorably thought-provoking. I appreciated this little design decision in the credits: At 17:38 Editor and Associate Producer, Tom Hannen's name doesn't move as everything else on the screen changes (17:42). So his name remains while his role/title changes to Motion Graphics. Clever.

[@EduardoAngelVisuals]

Outstanding production and acting. A very serious and relevant topic that sadly we aren't paying enough attention to.

[@greg7748]

i turned my google mini off halfway thru watching this. ...now i’m talking about it in the comment section 🤦🏽‍♂️ humans don’t learn!

[@omark4649]

Fantastic perspective of the future. 'Quiet desperation is the English way' -Pink Floyd.

[@needmoreramsay]

Fantastic perspective of the PRESENT you mean ?

[@CarolReidCA]

This has been this way for about 20 years. Where have you been? It's disgusting that these companies have been allowed to get away with this violation of our privacy, a basic human right we no longer have. It's no wonder so many kids have anxiety & depresion, and are medicated. It's sick.

[@timbridge3982]

A useful resource to initiate more discussion. Well done FT for trying new ways to connect on subjects without clear answers.

[@carolinaquirozr354]

Private Life has left the building.

[@user82938]

Governments and corporations have become like jealous boyfriends. And they are just as pathetic.

[@anupsingh-qv3nw]

wow-wow,

[@ezrankala]

This is too Good !!! Good job you two and the Team involved

[@starauk]

Wow. Amazing work that joins multiple digital privacy aspects to demonstrate how together they create a digital prison.

[@JohnPearce-iAbacus]

Brilliantly swerving in how it made us feel. Clever layout of the morality and ethics of big brother, or is that big sister…. Where do we go with all this? The genie is out of the bottle, the lamp and the zoo…

[@DallasTaylor]

Never have I felt so seen

[@digitauxesque]

Good work. It would have been easy to make Arthur a one-dimensional strawman villain, but you made him nuanced as well.

[@criticalevent]

I was on the edge of my seat...when he sat down on that sketchy looking glass table.

[@danielalfonsopasaraalfaro4719]

Well done FT! One of the most important challenges of our times.

[@angadabrol1087]

WOW!!! Just...wow!

[@johnnyquattro7390]

This is why KZbin is so great. Thanks for creating such a great film FT .. !

[@JLneonhug]

Very well done. Thank you.

[@Matt-nb3yb]

Bravo, FT. Impressively provocative, the comparisons to Black Mirror are fair. As the FT is a journalistic outlet I would say this /is/ a very different thing, this is original content reflecting the real world we live in. I’m slightly uneasy about the editorializing of this kind of content from a journalistic perspective. But! This is something that I’m glad to watch, so that’s that

[@dnag247]

Brilliant. Exceptional and ….. Terrifying

[@treytiks5359]

Great video turned out! It was very interesting to see.

[@whi1e]

after all 1984 was written by a British citizen. The SNS is watching you.

[@nebulageorge]

Brilliant, provocative!

[@yousseph777]

the short film is like 1984 + Matrix

[@grinapo]

Yeah. All of them part real part fiction. I kind of dislike the little untruths in this one for the sake of the argument.

[@SuperTopnotch22]

This was outstanding. Thank you

[@abclevxyz]

More of this FT

[@AdTe]

This is actually really cool! Great job FT 😀👍

[@marklanahan7289]

'The Internet of Things'...what do you think the 'Things' are?

[@roredd7493]

Wow!

[@pennryan970]

Is this Rory Pond? And is that the kid from Years and Years?

[@jeanlefranc3817]

We Westerners let the very fabric of our societies rot away since 1960. No longer having decency, or values, or religious feelings shaping our collective behaviors simply prepared these times of machines taking over, with our consent, lest we should be lost.

[@druid5023]

First they say she didn't take her phone or watch then they say the tracked her heartbeat and location on "that first night" bit of a continuity error. . .

[@tomassey123]

Awesome good job FT

[@markgadsby5568]

People say I’m a conspiracy theorist but I am watching THIS on FT’s channel?

[@mediatechart4138]

I'm on the list now

[@jw999]

Wow...

[@EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21]

so good .

[@alexandermacarthur1571]

Well done!

[@DanielVance]

Is this what 'freedom' looks like?

[@acasccseea4434]

"War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength"

[@Calbefraques]

Really well done.

[@cameronlove6844]

Good example of why society needs to transition away from big tech.

[@moonlightfitz]

THIS.

[@robertmasumbuko885]

Brilliant.

[@chrisrollins4850]

Well done.

[@kennethanderson6900]

"a teaching moment." Teacher says throw away all "smart devices." (It will never not be astonishing that people happily pay for the devices that spy on them.)

[@papibertfully]

Very well done. Frightening actual issues raising very serious questions with regards to the meaning of humanity and the world. Are the policy-makers up to this gigantic tasks? Are they rolling up their sleeves or simply being trapped in this?

[@raymondgill9796]

Wow

[@aitheignis]

Datat scientist is the next evil occupation in Hollywood movie. Mark my word lol.

[@pauljacobson2207]

She was on Black Mirror; White bear episode i think, where she was punished by having to relive over and over her punishment (maybe not her but she was in something...found it,,Years and Years (HBO) about the future also (thanks wikipedia)

[@mothersoul1]

The only thing missing is Rod Sterling

[@pauldpoulpe280]

Nice work

[@ivanniaalcayaga7577]

You can choose for one of the above gifts

[@MrDonPc]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

that argument can go on forever, if the scriptwriter decides so

[@jamesgacheru4260]

Is there more!

[@NikStar210]

👍

[@ajjohn185]

Interesting,

[@blanketfortressofsolitude5270]

Rory Pond!

[@pauljmeyer1]

Welcome to a 'Brave New World'. Micromanagement and surveillance have become the norm.

[@gunner4002]

This became very uncomfortable very quickly. We really should get paid for our User Data, but that's for someone smarter than me to figure out.

[@moonlightfitz]

THIS. All of this.

[@devpr0nerd631]

👏👏 nice informative movie 👍🙏

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

1984....

[@Sam-tt9kx]

I have to say this is an interesting and exciting format for journalism. I would love it if the video link real-world legislation that has been passed to allow this. I think is a great way for people to understand the risk data. Imagine cybercrime faking these digital signatures which will be used as evidence in the future.

[@tonyaitkenis]

Extremely thought provoking Big Brother type interrogation. I actually looked at my mobile phone and computer thinking what did you record about me during the Covid lockdown and can I ever trust your data collection requests. Within minutes I was back to searching for Internet Porn and playing Candy Crush without a care in the world.

[@mohammadal-subaie1840]

Amazing video👍👍

[@javihdpollard]

Weird my grandparents told me we’d beaten the nazis but here we are😵‍💫😷

[@Barefoot_Joe]

Which Nazis? The Nazi generals who carried on serving in germany, or the Nazi scientists who carried on the same research in USA / UK / USSR etc?

[@javihdpollard]

@@Barefoot_Joe wake up mate

[@Barefoot_Joe]

@@javihdpollard Learn your history

[@extra2ab]

@@Barefoot_Joe 🎯

[@jilldwyer5929]

Always break the restrictions, from people that lie to you . Government that's tyrannical should never be listened to or conformed too.

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

Is this reflective of real life? Is any of this really happening?

[@fenlandwildlifeclips]

This is the most thought provoking videod I l've seen since the pandemic began. I've always been wary of new technology, now I know why. I won't be buying a new smart watch for the foreseeable future, that's for sure.

[@dittikke]

No not really. Still need humans to join the dots and turn data into information.

[@PraiseTheLord-JesusChrist]

Welcome to "our" world

[@StudiaGREK]

so... future... new future. Are you ready?

[@PtolemyXVII]

FT does black mirror...

[@giovannaroda3177]

This might be an example of predictive programming ... to get us prepared for total surveillance

[@danielk6295]

it's interesting how this film illustrates the lack of understanding of the foundations of ML by people who are at the table talking about it, whilst people who have understanding are not involved. a bunch of economists freaking out about 'algorithms' that cannot be understood is hilarious, since algorithms are designed by humans to solve a problem. the properties of the estimators derived from the algorithms may not be well understood, but that is a separate issue entirely

[@felixnightwing]

People are predictable

[@captainmarvz323]

👀

[@jayst]

Monero. XMR.

[@torguttormsyvertsen9088]

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[@BanazirGalpsi1968]

I would ask for a lawyer, but I'm an American. Not sure if brit would be allowed.

[@lb6651]

Wtf

[@bublikoff3004]

Should be 8mrd view's

[@EnzoLuka21]

Heat, drought, flood, hunger, covid24, technology on 7 something billions of people. The future looks just bright!! ❤

[@user-pe7uf4om8r]

🤏자유로운 채굴이 진정한 자유일까? 자유로운 채굴의 행복과 불행은 함께 합니다. #AskTheEmbassy 👌🇯🇵🇨🇵🇲🇾🇨🇦🇧🇷🇩🇰🇧🇻🇮🇳🇧🇪🇿🇦🇳🇱🇨🇷🇧🇬🇦🇺🇮🇹🇩🇪🇺🇲🙏

[@swethaselvaraj7122]

AI will come, but it can never rule.

[@shubhangichandanshive9806]

It's already ruling your some of the most important aspects of life.

[@northwestnugget6021]

The more electronic devices you have in your home the more information they can get out of you📱

[@ignatpoddubnykh]

Дада, особенно умиляет то, что британцы не доверяют серверам за границей. То есть, если следят свои, то это вроде как тоже не ок, но менее не ок, чем китайцы или русские. Противно понимать, что от того, что ценилось многими в старой Европе остаётся всё меньше и меньше...

[@Growthunlimited]

Person of interest

[@brucetsai7732]

creepy but interesting lol

[@slim11shock]

But do people learn? Google, Facebook are your new masters

[@cz8738]

Is this why China blocked facebook and Google to prevent data from being lost? Is GDPR the best legal protection in the world?

[@danielk6295]

This is such flawed understanding of algorithms. Algorithms are ways of doing things, your morning wake up routine is an algorithm. Ppl understand how algorithms work, it's a determinate way of doing things...

[@dittikke]

"Only taking orders" replaced by "Only following the algorithm" Will be the information age's excuse for a bad decision.

[@grinapo]

Indeed. And saying "nobody understands algorithms". It's like saying "nobody understand how cars work", "nobody understands how grass grows". Sure, there are people who don't. Doesn't mean there aren't any who do. In fact, there are a lot who does understand, since that's their profession.

[@roberthoskins4501]

Know thy enemy .