Rebel Geeks: Give Us Back Our Data

Summary

Evgeny Morozov decodes the digital landscape to show how new technologies provide a smokescreen for a huge power shift.

Technology researcher and thinker Evgeny Morozov believes the entire discussion around cool, new innovative technology is a giant distraction from the most important issues.

In this film, Morozov unravels the digital landscape and shows us the real processes that are leading the huge transfer of power away from ordinary people.

We meet him in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is researching the digital history of the world.

Morozov shows us how cutting-edge biometric and facial recognition technology leads to a world without privacy. He argues that instant identification leads to over-discrimination.