D 2015 | Documentary | 100 Min
Director: David Bernet
WITH: Jan Philipp Albrecht, Viviane Reding u.v.a.
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations at the latest, it is clear that the most personal information about all of us has become a resource: Data is the petroleum of the twenty-first century: whoever has it, has money and hence power. But who controls this access to private data? And what does it mean for our society?
Director David Bernet accompanied, among others, the conservative EU commissioner Viviane Reding and the young, ambitious Green member of parliament Jan Philipp Albrecht (MEP) in their struggle for a European data protection law—a law intended to protect every form of data transfer. For the first time in the history of the EU, a film team was allowed to penetrate the depths of the EU and following the making of a law in their film. Lobbyists, specialists in business law, and activists turn up and try to influence it. A struggle like David’s against Goliath begins: civil rights versus economic interests. It has long since ceased to be solely about big data. It is about the future of every citizen of the EU, about privacy and security.
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Kino im U e.V.