In a clever marketing move, an ad agency set up a billboard and showed surveillance images on a busy Toronto street to illustrate the privacy issues raised in the new movie called “Snowden.” The film based on National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last week.
The film dramatizes Snowden life including his work at intelligence agencies and subsequent leaking information about the United States NSA’s surveillance programs and tactics. Snowden now lives in Russia to avoid legal pursuit by U.S. authorities.
‘Canadians are not immune’
Director Oliver Stone said the film only scratches the surface in terms of the U.S. government’s capabilities with regards digital spying. He warned that Canadians are not immune to the online privacy issues and that they should take a lesson from the film.
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