Austrian director Werner Boote took his “smart” phone on his Hong Kong-to-Utah search for the answer to a simple question: Who knows who we are in this vast, digitally inter-connected world – and why do they know that? Connections between apparently innocent social networks, useful search engines, or threatening security services are explored with the kind of candor and humor that makes room for unexpected insight into the complexity and humanity of even the most rigid and impersonal of technologies. Boote interviews the founder of TOR, an anonymizing web browser, but also Chicago street gang leaders, watchmen of NSA server facilities, and a philosopher – and triumphantly beaches his search in a Cuban prison built as a Foucault-ian panopticon where all inmates can see each other and also feel watched from a central tower, even when the guardians’ tower may be empty.
AUDIO: German, English
SUBTITLE: română, engleză