The Power of Privacy - documentary film

In this film, Aleks Krotoski travels the world to undergo challenges that explore our digital life in the 21st century. Watch her be stalked and hacked, fight to get leaked documents back, dive into open data and live in a futuristic home that monitors her every move.
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Commissioning editor Robin Hough
Script Consultant / Presenter Aleks Krotoski
Creative director Alistair Campbell
Producer Carrie Budge
Executive producer Amelie von Harrach
Director Callum Cooper
Writers Carrie Budge, Callum Cooper
Director of Animation Matthias Hoegg
Director of photography Michael Latham
Editor Anna Meller @ Buillion
Sound Design Mauricio d'Orey
VO Sound Engineer Jared Nuget
Assistant Animators Daniela Negrin Ochoa, Iria Lopez
VFX assistant Caine Henchman
Production assistants Anna Proctor, Rebecca Gaines, Natalie Brook-Reynolds
Researchers Hannah Whittingham, Sarah Streicher

[@lillylee2410]

I’m an exec at a tech company. Here’s my privacy tips. Have at least 2 bank accounts at different banks. 1 use for everything online. 2nd for physical purchases & mortgage or important big payments. Ideally that would be your 3rd account. Have a separate sim/phone for all your social media & internet accounts. Private phone for work & family/close friends, no free/social apps allowed on this phone. Emails only via computer. Every device must have a VPN service. No Alexa, no Siri. Ever. No cloud, only backup to private server. Smart home must be backed to private server not company, possibility to override to physical access. Share private matters in person, phones away, airplane mode on. Don’t sleep with phone near your pillow, the signals are strong enough to cause health risks.

[@konomikitten]

The greatest security threat to your devices is yourself, as the people "hacking" her demonstrated, if you don't pay attention you'll be easily compromised.

[@Greg-It]

This is an excellent summary!

[@Thoran666]

Great documentary. I hope people realize that they need to protect their privacy and not just hand personal information out to everyone. Even many of my close friends and family don't fully realize the value of information and the power it gives.

[@dannyb343]

Well done!! Well researched, well thought out, well composed. Thank you for you and your team's efforts. I, for one, will spread the word.

[@KudosMagazine]

What an eye opener.....excellent video, I learned so much, including how little I know. Thank you so very much for producing this segment. Much appreciated.

[@BigButtPaperWings]

the more i learn about these topics, the more i want to disconnect myself from the internet... but it's not that easy. what i can say is, that i will NEVER use anything related to IoT at least...

[@Who_Am_I_7]

Can you suggest me the movies /videos that would aware me that how internet destroy our privacy

[@sairajuk9753]

@@Who_Am_I_7 Watch the movie The great hack

[@blueballedtech]

Great documentary. Thanks for posting.

[@charleskuhn382]

Great documentary! Thanks

[@zacharylaw9513]

The largest hole in any person's security is themselves. Devices are far harder to crack than a person.

[@jayjayfreeman]

Man, I wish I could go into a time machine and tell myself 21-22 years ago to NEVER sign up for an email address. EVER. I wouldn't have signed up for anything else and thus, would have set a precedent for myself. I was very reluctant then. I saw no point in it. I was happy and stress free writing checks, getting snail mail, calling people up and hearing their voices instead of incessant texts and notifications. Having a paper trail! My gut was right - now look where humanity is! Call me an old codger, I don't care.

[@danielpohl3306]

I had 2 ex-girlfriends that joined forces against me, once they found out that I married a Latino girl, they hacked into our emails, cell phones, installed Trojan horses on our computers, deleted my business mail, and harassed my wife during pregnancy. My wife was so stressed out that was 3 times bleeding, and had to ho to a hospital. We almost lost our child. I went to FBI for help, and they simply didn't care. According to them, no crime was committed. Why am I paying taxes?

[@sidrahhussain5958]

So they didn't EVEN investigate possible harassment?!

[@danielpohl3306]

+Sidrah Hussain No, not interested.

[@quantumtruth]

+Daniel Pohl wow what psycho bitches - they must have really been obsessed with you

[@GymClubHouse]

lucky guy got himself a latin girl. they are the best! no i am not latin and i don't have a latin gf but i did at one point. they always love having sex and taking care of their men. love latinas!

[@FireicerCooper]

Hacked? You mean cracked, see dropping in a trojan is not hacking it is cracking. Cracking is illegal and Hacking is legal there is a difference and even this documentary got it wrong. You should have told the FBI they cracked your security and had broken into your home, violated your family and caused you harassment and alarm. Use the correct terminology and the system will take you seriously, you were not hacked you were harassed and violated causing unnecessary alarm. Hacking is the term used for taking a device originally designed for one purpose and making it do something other than what it was intended for.

[@SteveSnowman]

"The Chimney." Brilliant.

[@froekenur]

Great movie, thank you! I would love to see a follow up on how Facebook, Google, Amazon and other companys are tracking us and what i can do about it if i don't want to be tracked and give away my privacy but still want to be connected with friends and don't move to a remote island.

[@theGuardian]

Subtitles now available on this film. More languages available in this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3KbanqerrGUpZo

[@GymClubHouse]

this is a good video but it is more about internet and hacking, social media, and artificial intelligence rather than how being alone helps us mentally and how humans can benefit from privacy in certain ways vs. not having privacy in certain ways.

[@mmughal]

i love it .. can i play it in my Security Awareness Sessions?

[@tropicaljantie]

very good documentary - any related slides on this matter?

[@lunaNing]

Interesting documentary. It shows the balance by depicting the pros and cons of digital information we give out on internet. Yet in real life, it seems like many corporates and governments exploit our data and information to their benefits. And of course, it helps develop technologies and innovation to save lives. Yet we don't have enough for privacy protection and human rights.

[@martycrow]

Worth revisiting!

[@MB-hz7wm]

Regulation concerning IOT is important. Also, why isn’t there more emphasis placed on employee training as well as some type of repercussion for not exercising cyber security awareness when it affects the revenue and branding to this extent? I feel if their career was potentially jeopardized (depending on the situation), they’d be less inclined to “make a mistake.”

[@spellerlittlewing]

great video

[@bigdaddydishrags]

Phone hackers in the 1970's were called "Phreakers", not "freakers".

[@PapillonMagnifique]

Thank you for the great documentary. May I use it for my company presentation about data privacy? Thanks.

[@TheSergeyVlasenko]

oh I just want to cut those guy's mustaches off.

[@ayopacheco1]

More like whiskers. lol

[@khanhthuyvohuynh5268]

Agree Lol

[@valeria-militiamessalina5672]

Not very hygienic indeed..

[@OFFICIALLOONATIX]

Amazing documentary

[@ABHAEY27]

Underrated

[@genbu3834]

Great documentary about privacy. But can you please add subtitles to this video?

[@theGuardian]

+Genbu Self Sub Let me see if we've got a transcript lying around.

[@theGuardian]

+Genbu Self Sub Hey there, I've just published English subtitles on this. The film was originally published in five parts (for embedding in our website), which are subtitled in 7 or 8 languages. Those parts are available on this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3KbanqerrGUpZo

[@genbu3834]

+The Guardian Thank you! Because I still learning english, it greats to have a subtitles.

[@ruspinos3890]

Many Thanks to The Guardian and the whole team contributing to this fascinating work. IoT and Artificial Intelligence are pushing us to an unknown and unpredictable gate. it could be the self-destruction of the human being as Steven Hawking warned us from developing a digital world smarter and more sophisticated than our brains and we lose control of it.

[@Dannydurangi]

Does anybody else who's played the Splinter Cell games think that Aleks sounds exactly like Grimsdottir? I know it's quite nerdy and unrelated to the doc, but I found it brilliantly ironic.

[@bobrew461]

+Daniel Jewitt She does voices for games too...

[@charleskuhn382]

Daniel Jewitt I thought the exact same!

[@ksteve9807]

Good. We are juat developing technology without knowing importance of privacy

[@kendallnavstar]

*DID ANYONE CATCH THE NAKED SELFIE ON HER LAPTOP?*

[@idka9264]

This is SO IMPORTANT. And this was 2016! Imagine how much better those select few Tech Giants have gotten and collecting our personal information.

[@ezra3457]

super radio active sample, holds it in his bag and hand with no protection :v

[@asc556]

I would like to see this with a computer using mac os or linux. Cheers.

[@Fares04]

The one guy’s mustache made me jealous ngl

[@mumtazahzawawi]

It was very fantastic to know about our live being hack by third parties. And we can and can't to fill our personal when we had to attend any media or issue that we should be in there. It was very confused when we being forced and of course we need to face it by our own mind and safety.

[@jakes2759]

(I promise to whoever reads this comment I am a sane and logical person; as this may be difficult for some to understand; judge me accordingly) As a mathematician (really), I can see where this is all going and sadly, it is not a happy ending in the "linear" direction we are heading. There is a constant "war" between privacy and security. Like a snake and a squirrel. The stronger the snakes venom becomes, the stronger the squirrel's resistance to it becomes and back and forth. In the linear direction we are headed, unless a major event happens in the world that causes change, or a regression in human technological production, eventually privacy and security are going to become equal to each other. And the dignity, uniqueness and individuality of what it means to be "human" will converge into unity as a single identified form of intelligence. To those that choose to conform and submit to this, interconnection, they will no longer have identity as we know it but be like a single "number" and a single interconnected "brain" and share in each other's secrets, sins, memories and imperfections. It will be like all of mankind is one, single soul of selfishness and a love for power. This may sound like it's nonsensical, but I can assure you if we keep heading the direction we are, mathematically and logically, we will eventually get there. This can be mathematically projected. Both security and privacy will lose and fall into the trap of our arrogance, love of power, convenience and selfishness...until God steps in to judge the world and overthrow our chosen unity of sin. ...I may sound like a person out of their mind to some; as this may be understandably very difficult to grasp as a rational, realistic outcome, but I promise it is a very, very real threat. And we will eventually get there. Our choice now is are we going to get there sooner or later. Will we delay this outcome or willingly converge to this outcome, knowing it is inevitable? If I didn't see the picture and mathematical reasoning behind such statements, I would probably laugh at how ridiculous this all sounds...but it is truly real and scientific--this is not just something based on creativity; the mention of God depends on faith, for which I believe in a higher power, and I believe the higher power is the Christian God based on much evidence, both mathematical and biblical evidence. Technologically speaking, it is also possible to extract intelligence data directly from the human brain. Another form of surveillance that is seen as nonsense to some that do not understand the science behind it; that is not currently, but will eventually, get enough attention as to the morality of the use of such technology as it's scope becomes broader and more public. This also just comes down to numbers, it can be very easily mathematically proven and I can say with certainty, such technology is already in use. Look up Bayes' Theorem and the "publically known" implications and applications on cognitive recognition analysis.

[@laurabirli]

I've been trying to project into the future and you summed it up. Thanks for posting and weak minded r the ones who would think you sound crazy. 🙏🙏♡🙏🙏🙏

[@bhavikas1804]

You are right and this end is known as 'singularity'

[@oldfan1963]

Anything that starts with "smart" is dangerous. Remember "smart space" -- where office cubicles with some measure of privacy were replaced with "open planning?" And isn't a "mart home" what Winston lived in in "1984?" I think this reporter is off her rocker.

[@Dana_inc]

They love throwing it in your face!

[@asur7153]

At 25:28 the interviewee squarely lays the onus for the susceptibility of systems to fall prey to cracking upon the need for any organisation to get it's product out to the market in the shortest possible time. Methinks this remark is the keystone. It prompts the poseur "Why are companies in such a tearing hurry to get their product/s to the market?". Does the answer lie in the inability of the current world order to enforce intellectual property rights forcing even well-reputed organisations to 'fly-by-night' and earn profit before their product is duplicated?

[@24j99]

7:49 the rick roll legends

[@tomsuibney9093]

Its depressing. .cant watch anymore..

[@essiesarah9548]

Is the voiceover done by Jane from Daria?

[@doremifa8107]

What's the latest for 2017, in terms of privacy.

[@ehong3398]

Now WannaCry

[@evangarson2862]

someone help me on my IASC assignment plz what is a peer journal reviewed article haha

[@whydoineedahandle1]

Too funny I'm doing mine too

[@Br0wnGuy26]

same

[@jayit6851]

Omg I'm doing this assignment 2 years later

[@danielaarmstrong5654]

@@jayit6851 same here ahaha

[@valeria-militiamessalina5672]

2:00 Audacious squirrel on an electrical wire!@@

[@michaeljordon704]

how much does it cost for this guy to dig up all of your digital data

[@greywolf271]

Seriously, you need a documentary to tell yourselves this ? Someone said Facebook is the greatest meeting place for the mentally insane. I'd extend that to all free social media platforms.

[@irfanhasanswarna5798]

❤

[@faramund9865]

10:07 uuhm

[@lembueno894]

My teacher said this documentary would be fun :(

[@ShoppingwithRina]

Omg

[@jzdst773]

27:20 then perhaps so too should our data?? should?

[@nonameavailable4840]

in soviet russia digital life explores you :3

[@Sagittarius-81]

History didn't begin 300 years ago. I'm sick to death of being patronised about history.

[@pinguimgutembergcarvalho7775]

na area da tecnologia nada esta seguro. nosso mundo nossa guerra.

[@boinkslut8349]

Rather too gentle on actual investigation here. People could do this, might do that. Maybe Edward Snowdon has spoiled us already, telling us this governments is doing this, these companies are doing that.

[@boinkslut8349]

+boinkslut For example, how might a helpful helpful document be used for harm in the wrong hands? electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/un-database-gaza-aid-may-give-israel-targets-attack-secret-memo

[@boss_man2126]

Spanish version?

[@dotails]

Is it safe for him to hold that piece of radioactive wood?

[@jayit6851]

I'm not an expert in radioactivity but I imagine that level of radiation is not dangerous for a short exposure period.

[@kurtmorales2684]

6:20

[@oldfan1963]

24:54 - "Allowing hackers!?!?" Jesus Christ! The NSA is more of a threat to me than a 16 y/o who wants to post a photo shopped picture of me in my altogether.

[@anthonybrazzle]

Regardless of whatever, they're both threats, and I feel like that's the overarching point here.

[@pumamountainlion7777]

Airbnb.

[@Axz92Axz]

20:20 this guy have a very interesting mustache.

[@subhakantasahoo9760]

KZbin recommend it to me. When 😁whatsApp change it's privacy policy in January. 😃😃

[@foueisaechao6125]

Google

[@foueisaechao6125]

Google

[@foueisaechao6125]

KZbin

[@MESH2PM]

Hello, I'd like to translate this film into Arabic; so could you please open Add subtitle\cc on? Thank you.

[@maxdavisjaiking3473]

Anyone from ums?

[@dev_bistre2]

thats korean in the beginning animations

[@kyleortiz2697]

Cicada 3301

[@TariqAmazin]

epic

[@abylay_dos]

I think that u can learn hacking only for those moments 10:07

[@LuxuriantCarrot]

You look like an older millie bobby brown

[@manowar2816]

Yelp work with Google

[@brisvegas859]

there is no such thing as a 'collective good', what is good for one person is not good for another, this is why empires justify their actions for the greater (collective) good, when in reality a collective good does not exist.

[@imranchowdhury-ami893]

😎

[@brisvegas859]

just become a chameleon, nobody can hack a chameleon

[@tipyourhomie-chromewebexte9927]

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[@manowar2816]

Google is the father of Trojan

[@nikhilmathews1335]

Eskkkketit

[@nikhilmathews1335]

An I get a victory royals

[@PYTHONCANDY]

This is epic

[@vestaosto]

I was so distracted by that beard.....

[@oldfan1963]

This woman must have been in a cave for the past 20 years. Or maybe the video was made in, say, in 1995?

[@emanuelabagosha2364]

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[@handlevognhandlevognsen3128]

ok boomer

[@dingogirlsden9845]

You have no idea about psy life..

[@sirbughunter]

Conclusion: 1. Use Google (recommended). Pay attention on what brand you trust. Google is one which can be trusted imho. 2. Pay attention of what you have enabled in Google! 3. Don't be evil.

[@jorgenitales4128]

+Total Faith You're fucking wrong. Google gives data to the NSA and collects EVERYTHING they can about you through google analytics google search, youtube, gmail, google+, etc. Trust no one and be independent of these services.

[@TheCreatorofexistence.A]

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