People You May Know. An FT Film written by James Graham

We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice.
Written by James Graham.
Actors Lydia West and Arthur Darvill.
Directed and produced by Juliet Riddell.
Edited and produced by Tom Hannen.
Cinematography by Franklin Dow.
Composer: Tristan Cassel-Delavois.
Additional filming by Petros Gioumpasis.
LiDAR & Graphics by ScanLAB Projects.
Supported by Luminate.
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  • @ArtLoverScotland
    @ArtLoverScotland17 күн бұрын

    I am watching this now in 2024 - imagine where this is at NOW!!!

  • @Nailnuke

    @Nailnuke

    17 күн бұрын

    Me too, it's coming! Unless the masses wake up!!!

  • @jackiejohnston4633
    @jackiejohnston46333 жыл бұрын

    I felt sick watching this. So glad I'm old and on my way out of this.

  • @silverdm123

    @silverdm123

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you’ve got kids then share this and any other anti control media. We are the 99%

  • @livkao
    @livkao3 жыл бұрын

    With series like this, I should cancel my Netflix subscription! Nice ,short, and informative film with an amazing storytelling sequence. Love it.

  • @johnnybravohonk6964

    @johnnybravohonk6964

    3 жыл бұрын

    Would you close local store just because it also sells candies which lead people to diabetes? Naaah. Just watch "nutricious" movies and series. I can recommend Electric Dreams (not available on Netflix though).

  • @olivergrayread
    @olivergrayread3 жыл бұрын

    I thought Black Mirror was supposed to be about potential near future scenarios rather than the actual present

  • @cybernition

    @cybernition

    3 жыл бұрын

    nope, movies and books and all that is just 'predictive programming' i.e. they are telling the masses what is coming and movies make it look like a smooth transition

  • @olivergrayread

    @olivergrayread

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cybernition think that's a bit cart before the horse if you don't mind me saying

  • @cybernition

    @cybernition

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@olivergrayread well sure i don't mind, but if you look at how much of the movies plots from the 90s are becoming reality by the day, including black mirror today as we speak, I hope you can agree to a point where in a way we create movies and then they create us :)

  • @acasccseea4434

    @acasccseea4434

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's the past, IBM has been able to predict to a 95% accuracy where and when you are going to be within a 15min time slot, within 5m square. up to 2 months in advance (if you're American) this was 2016 (look at their marketing material from way back then), that was before all these AI stuff made pattern recognition much easier. humans are much dumber than most of us want to be, not that computers are getting smarter

  • @EdgarAmara
    @EdgarAmara3 жыл бұрын

    Now this, this is something I never thought I'd see: informative journalism on stories that impact me conveyed sublimly and dare I say.... entertainingly? Kudos to the actors as well!

  • @j.j.1064
    @j.j.10643 жыл бұрын

    Big brother knows I watched this video. Time for the two minutes hate.

  • @Accomplice23
    @Accomplice233 жыл бұрын

    Very Black Mirror-esque. I love it 💗

  • @jeffsterling2809

    @jeffsterling2809

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's spot on ain't it, we are living in black mirror

  • @wallaceguy
    @wallaceguy3 жыл бұрын

    Very successful expansion into a new kind of creative and thought provoking content by the FT that highlights one of the most important issues in our society. Good work and hope for more like this.

  • @CarolReidCA

    @CarolReidCA

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hope this surveillance state is stopped. We need to get this out of our homes, our schools, our skies, our lives.

  • @tonebonetones

    @tonebonetones

    3 жыл бұрын

    'very successful'......? Send me a bottle of what you're drinking?

  • @wallaceguy

    @wallaceguy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tonebonetones yes, for the FT which is traditionally focussed on quite dry economic analysis I thought this was a successful attempt at new content. Not to your taste?

  • @Changenow-ze2sl

    @Changenow-ze2sl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its called propaganda. Not that they were not already doing it though.

  • @danielharrison8053

    @danielharrison8053

    3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't get it at all

  • @Elysia63
    @Elysia633 жыл бұрын

    I really miss your acting, Arthur! 😢😭 I wish there could be more!!!

  • @sandscribbler
    @sandscribbler3 жыл бұрын

    Nicely-written, well-acted (nailed those accents! 😂), and memorably thought-provoking. I appreciated this little design decision in the credits: At 17:38 Editor and Associate Producer, Tom Hannen's name doesn't move as everything else on the screen changes (17:42). So his name remains while his role/title changes to Motion Graphics. Clever.

  • @EduardoAngelVisuals
    @EduardoAngelVisuals3 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding production and acting. A very serious and relevant topic that sadly we aren't paying enough attention to.

  • @greg7748
    @greg77483 жыл бұрын

    i turned my google mini off halfway thru watching this. ...now i’m talking about it in the comment section 🤦🏽‍♂️ humans don’t learn!

  • @omark4649
    @omark46493 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic perspective of the future. 'Quiet desperation is the English way' -Pink Floyd.

  • @needmoreramsay

    @needmoreramsay

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic perspective of the PRESENT you mean ?

  • @CarolReidCA

    @CarolReidCA

    3 жыл бұрын

    This has been this way for about 20 years. Where have you been? It's disgusting that these companies have been allowed to get away with this violation of our privacy, a basic human right we no longer have. It's no wonder so many kids have anxiety & depresion, and are medicated. It's sick.

  • @timbridge3982
    @timbridge39823 жыл бұрын

    A useful resource to initiate more discussion. Well done FT for trying new ways to connect on subjects without clear answers.

  • @carolinaquirozr354
    @carolinaquirozr3543 жыл бұрын

    Private Life has left the building.

  • @user82938
    @user829383 жыл бұрын

    Governments and corporations have become like jealous boyfriends. And they are just as pathetic.

  • @anupsingh-qv3nw
    @anupsingh-qv3nw3 жыл бұрын

    wow-wow,

  • @ezrankala
    @ezrankala3 жыл бұрын

    This is too Good !!! Good job you two and the Team involved

  • @starauk
    @starauk3 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Amazing work that joins multiple digital privacy aspects to demonstrate how together they create a digital prison.

  • @JohnPearce-iAbacus
    @JohnPearce-iAbacus3 жыл бұрын

    Brilliantly swerving in how it made us feel. Clever layout of the morality and ethics of big brother, or is that big sister…. Where do we go with all this? The genie is out of the bottle, the lamp and the zoo…

  • @DallasTaylor
    @DallasTaylor3 жыл бұрын

    Never have I felt so seen

  • @digitauxesque
    @digitauxesque3 жыл бұрын

    Good work. It would have been easy to make Arthur a one-dimensional strawman villain, but you made him nuanced as well.

  • @criticalevent
    @criticalevent3 жыл бұрын

    I was on the edge of my seat...when he sat down on that sketchy looking glass table.

  • @danielalfonsopasaraalfaro4719
    @danielalfonsopasaraalfaro47193 жыл бұрын

    Well done FT! One of the most important challenges of our times.

  • @angadabrol1087
    @angadabrol10873 жыл бұрын

    WOW!!! Just...wow!

  • @johnnyquattro7390
    @johnnyquattro73903 жыл бұрын

    This is why KZread is so great. Thanks for creating such a great film FT .. !

  • @JLneonhug
    @JLneonhug3 жыл бұрын

    Very well done. Thank you.

  • @Matt-nb3yb
    @Matt-nb3yb3 жыл бұрын

    Bravo, FT. Impressively provocative, the comparisons to Black Mirror are fair. As the FT is a journalistic outlet I would say this /is/ a very different thing, this is original content reflecting the real world we live in. I’m slightly uneasy about the editorializing of this kind of content from a journalistic perspective. But! This is something that I’m glad to watch, so that’s that

  • @dnag247
    @dnag2473 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant. Exceptional and ….. Terrifying

  • @treytiks5359
    @treytiks53593 жыл бұрын

    Great video turned out! It was very interesting to see.

  • @whi1e
    @whi1e3 жыл бұрын

    after all 1984 was written by a British citizen. The SNS is watching you.

  • @nebulageorge
    @nebulageorge17 күн бұрын

    Brilliant, provocative!

  • @yousseph777
    @yousseph7773 жыл бұрын

    the short film is like 1984 + Matrix

  • @grinapo

    @grinapo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. All of them part real part fiction. I kind of dislike the little untruths in this one for the sake of the argument.

  • @SuperTopnotch22
    @SuperTopnotch223 жыл бұрын

    This was outstanding. Thank you

  • @abclevxyz
    @abclevxyz3 жыл бұрын

    More of this FT

  • @AdTe
    @AdTe2 жыл бұрын

    This is actually really cool! Great job FT 😀👍

  • @marklanahan7289
    @marklanahan72893 жыл бұрын

    'The Internet of Things'...what do you think the 'Things' are?

  • @roredd7493
    @roredd74933 жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @pennryan970
    @pennryan9703 жыл бұрын

    Is this Rory Pond? And is that the kid from Years and Years?

  • @jeanlefranc3817
    @jeanlefranc38173 жыл бұрын

    We Westerners let the very fabric of our societies rot away since 1960. No longer having decency, or values, or religious feelings shaping our collective behaviors simply prepared these times of machines taking over, with our consent, lest we should be lost.

  • @druid5023
    @druid50232 жыл бұрын

    First they say she didn't take her phone or watch then they say the tracked her heartbeat and location on "that first night" bit of a continuity error. . .

  • @tomassey123
    @tomassey1233 жыл бұрын

    Awesome good job FT

  • @markgadsby5568
    @markgadsby556817 күн бұрын

    People say I’m a conspiracy theorist but I am watching THIS on FT’s channel?

  • @mediatechart4138
    @mediatechart41383 жыл бұрын

    I'm on the list now

  • @jw999
    @jw9992 жыл бұрын

    Wow...

  • @EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture21
    @EuDouArteHipHopArtCulture213 жыл бұрын

    so good .

  • @alexandermacarthur1571
    @alexandermacarthur15713 жыл бұрын

    Well done!

  • @DanielVance
    @DanielVance3 жыл бұрын

    Is this what 'freedom' looks like?

  • @acasccseea4434

    @acasccseea4434

    3 жыл бұрын

    "War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength"

  • @Calbefraques
    @Calbefraques3 жыл бұрын

    Really well done.

  • @cameronlove6844
    @cameronlove68443 жыл бұрын

    Good example of why society needs to transition away from big tech.

  • @moonlightfitz

    @moonlightfitz

    Жыл бұрын

    THIS.

  • @robertmasumbuko885
    @robertmasumbuko8853 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant.

  • @chrisrollins4850
    @chrisrollins48503 жыл бұрын

    Well done.

  • @kennethanderson6900
    @kennethanderson69003 жыл бұрын

    "a teaching moment." Teacher says throw away all "smart devices." (It will never not be astonishing that people happily pay for the devices that spy on them.)

  • @papibertfully
    @papibertfully3 жыл бұрын

    Very well done. Frightening actual issues raising very serious questions with regards to the meaning of humanity and the world. Are the policy-makers up to this gigantic tasks? Are they rolling up their sleeves or simply being trapped in this?

  • @raymondgill9796
    @raymondgill97963 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @aitheignis
    @aitheignis3 жыл бұрын

    Datat scientist is the next evil occupation in Hollywood movie. Mark my word lol.

  • @pauljacobson2207
    @pauljacobson22073 жыл бұрын

    She was on Black Mirror; White bear episode i think, where she was punished by having to relive over and over her punishment (maybe not her but she was in something...found it,,Years and Years (HBO) about the future also (thanks wikipedia)

  • @mothersoul1
    @mothersoul13 жыл бұрын

    The only thing missing is Rod Sterling

  • @pauldpoulpe280
    @pauldpoulpe2803 жыл бұрын

    Nice work

  • @ivanniaalcayaga7577
    @ivanniaalcayaga7577 Жыл бұрын

    You can choose for one of the above gifts

  • @MrDonPc
    @MrDonPc3 жыл бұрын

    👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

  • @ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge
    @ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge3 жыл бұрын

    that argument can go on forever, if the scriptwriter decides so

  • @jamesgacheru4260
    @jamesgacheru42603 жыл бұрын

    Is there more!

  • @NikStar210
    @NikStar2103 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @ajjohn185
    @ajjohn1853 жыл бұрын

    Interesting,

  • @blanketfortressofsolitude5270
    @blanketfortressofsolitude52703 жыл бұрын

    Rory Pond!

  • @pauljmeyer1
    @pauljmeyer13 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to a 'Brave New World'. Micromanagement and surveillance have become the norm.

  • @gunner4002
    @gunner40023 жыл бұрын

    This became very uncomfortable very quickly. We really should get paid for our User Data, but that's for someone smarter than me to figure out.

  • @moonlightfitz
    @moonlightfitz Жыл бұрын

    THIS. All of this.

  • @devpr0nerd631
    @devpr0nerd6313 жыл бұрын

    👏👏 nice informative movie 👍🙏

  • @roniquebreauxjordan1302
    @roniquebreauxjordan13023 жыл бұрын

    1984....

  • @Sam-tt9kx
    @Sam-tt9kx3 жыл бұрын

    I have to say this is an interesting and exciting format for journalism. I would love it if the video link real-world legislation that has been passed to allow this. I think is a great way for people to understand the risk data. Imagine cybercrime faking these digital signatures which will be used as evidence in the future.

  • @tonyaitkenis
    @tonyaitkenis2 жыл бұрын

    Extremely thought provoking Big Brother type interrogation. I actually looked at my mobile phone and computer thinking what did you record about me during the Covid lockdown and can I ever trust your data collection requests. Within minutes I was back to searching for Internet Porn and playing Candy Crush without a care in the world.

  • @mohammadal-subaie1840
    @mohammadal-subaie18403 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video👍👍

  • @javihdpollard
    @javihdpollard3 жыл бұрын

    Weird my grandparents told me we’d beaten the nazis but here we are😵‍💫😷

  • @Barefoot_Joe

    @Barefoot_Joe

    3 жыл бұрын

    Which Nazis? The Nazi generals who carried on serving in germany, or the Nazi scientists who carried on the same research in USA / UK / USSR etc?

  • @javihdpollard

    @javihdpollard

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Barefoot_Joe wake up mate

  • @Barefoot_Joe

    @Barefoot_Joe

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@javihdpollard Learn your history

  • @extra2ab

    @extra2ab

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Barefoot_Joe 🎯

  • @jilldwyer5929
    @jilldwyer592915 күн бұрын

    Always break the restrictions, from people that lie to you . Government that's tyrannical should never be listened to or conformed too.

  • @fenlandwildlifeclips
    @fenlandwildlifeclips3 жыл бұрын

    Is this reflective of real life? Is any of this really happening?

  • @fenlandwildlifeclips

    @fenlandwildlifeclips

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is the most thought provoking videod I l've seen since the pandemic began. I've always been wary of new technology, now I know why. I won't be buying a new smart watch for the foreseeable future, that's for sure.

  • @dittikke

    @dittikke

    3 жыл бұрын

    No not really. Still need humans to join the dots and turn data into information.

  • @PraiseTheLord-JesusChrist
    @PraiseTheLord-JesusChrist3 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to "our" world

  • @StudiaGREK
    @StudiaGREK3 жыл бұрын

    so... future... new future. Are you ready?

  • @PtolemyXVII
    @PtolemyXVII3 жыл бұрын

    FT does black mirror...

  • @giovannaroda3177
    @giovannaroda31773 жыл бұрын

    This might be an example of predictive programming ... to get us prepared for total surveillance

  • @danielk6295
    @danielk62953 жыл бұрын

    it's interesting how this film illustrates the lack of understanding of the foundations of ML by people who are at the table talking about it, whilst people who have understanding are not involved. a bunch of economists freaking out about 'algorithms' that cannot be understood is hilarious, since algorithms are designed by humans to solve a problem. the properties of the estimators derived from the algorithms may not be well understood, but that is a separate issue entirely

  • @felixnightwing
    @felixnightwing3 жыл бұрын

    People are predictable

  • @captainmarvz323
    @captainmarvz3233 жыл бұрын

    👀

  • @jayst
    @jayst3 жыл бұрын

    Monero. XMR.

  • @torguttormsyvertsen9088
    @torguttormsyvertsen9088 Жыл бұрын

    "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

  • @BanazirGalpsi1968
    @BanazirGalpsi19682 жыл бұрын

    I would ask for a lawyer, but I'm an American. Not sure if brit would be allowed.

  • @lb6651
    @lb66513 жыл бұрын

    Wtf

  • @bublikoff3004
    @bublikoff30043 жыл бұрын

    Should be 8mrd view's

  • @EnzoLuka21
    @EnzoLuka213 жыл бұрын

    Heat, drought, flood, hunger, covid24, technology on 7 something billions of people. The future looks just bright!! ❤

  • @user-pe7uf4om8r
    @user-pe7uf4om8r3 жыл бұрын

    🤏자유로운 채굴이 진정한 자유일까? 자유로운 채굴의 행복과 불행은 함께 합니다. #AskTheEmbassy 👌🇯🇵🇨🇵🇲🇾🇨🇦🇧🇷🇩🇰🇧🇻🇮🇳🇧🇪🇿🇦🇳🇱🇨🇷🇧🇬🇦🇺🇮🇹🇩🇪🇺🇲🙏

  • @swethaselvaraj7122
    @swethaselvaraj71223 жыл бұрын

    AI will come, but it can never rule.

  • @shubhangichandanshive9806

    @shubhangichandanshive9806

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's already ruling your some of the most important aspects of life.

  • @northwestnugget6021
    @northwestnugget60213 жыл бұрын

    The more electronic devices you have in your home the more information they can get out of you📱

  • @ignatpoddubnykh
    @ignatpoddubnykh3 жыл бұрын

    Дада, особенно умиляет то, что британцы не доверяют серверам за границей. То есть, если следят свои, то это вроде как тоже не ок, но менее не ок, чем китайцы или русские. Противно понимать, что от того, что ценилось многими в старой Европе остаётся всё меньше и меньше...

  • @Growthunlimited
    @Growthunlimited3 жыл бұрын

    Person of interest

  • @brucetsai7732
    @brucetsai77323 жыл бұрын

    creepy but interesting lol

  • @slim11shock
    @slim11shock3 жыл бұрын

    But do people learn? Google, Facebook are your new masters

  • @cz8738
    @cz87383 жыл бұрын

    Is this why China blocked facebook and Google to prevent data from being lost? Is GDPR the best legal protection in the world?

  • @danielk6295
    @danielk62953 жыл бұрын

    This is such flawed understanding of algorithms. Algorithms are ways of doing things, your morning wake up routine is an algorithm. Ppl understand how algorithms work, it's a determinate way of doing things...

  • @dittikke

    @dittikke

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Only taking orders" replaced by "Only following the algorithm" Will be the information age's excuse for a bad decision.

  • @grinapo

    @grinapo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed. And saying "nobody understands algorithms". It's like saying "nobody understand how cars work", "nobody understands how grass grows". Sure, there are people who don't. Doesn't mean there aren't any who do. In fact, there are a lot who does understand, since that's their profession.

  • @roberthoskins4501
    @roberthoskins450117 күн бұрын

    Know thy enemy .

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