Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance

Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance

90 mins | Documentary | March 11, 2020

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in some countries is giving rise to a new form of political regime: numerical totalitarianism. Orwell's nightmare.

Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance

90 mins | Documentary | March 11, 2020

Big Brother: A World Under Surveillance
Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial recognition cameras, emotion detectors, citizen rating systems, autonomous drones… A security obsession that in some countries is giving rise to a new form of political regime: numerical totalitarianism. Orwell's nightmare.
Producers ARTE, CAPA
Original title Tous surveillés : 7 milliards de suspects
Directors Ludovic Gaillard, Sylvain Louvet
Writers Sylvain Louvet

Cast

Sylvain Louvet

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice)

Sandra Bertin

as Self - Nice Police Chief

Eylon Etshtein

as Self - Anyvision CEO

Isaac ben Israël

as Self - Cybersecurity Center Director

Hagar Shezaf

as Self - Journalist

Laurent Mucchielli

as Self - CNRS Research Director

Christian Estrosi

as Self - Nice Mayor

Martin Drago

as Self - Lawyer

Neema Giuliani

as Self - Lawyer

Clare Garvie

as Self - Lawyer

Liz O'Sullivan

as Self - Former Clarifai Employee

Chris Jones

as Self - Researcher

Alain Wang

as Self - Sinologist

Ge Yulu

as Self - Artist

Lin Junyue

as Self - Social Credit Theorist

Bextiyar Turgun

as Self - Uyghur Refugee

Mihrigul Tursun

as Self - Uyghur Refugee

Sophie Richardson

as Self - Human Rights Activist

Baptiste Robert

as Self - Cybersecurity Researcher

Aaron Peskin

as Self - Politician

George W. Bush

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Xi Jinping

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Emmanuel Macron

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Wang Yi

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Dominique de Villepin

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Laurent Fabius

as Self - Politician (archive footage)