Filmmaker: Cyril Tuschi
For some, they are traitors; for others, heroes.
Whistleblowers such as Daniel Ellsberg, Thomas Drake, William Binney, and Edward Snowden; and hackers and activists such as the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the former British secret service agent Annie Machon, warn us about the complete surveillance of our society.
| «Facebook is evil in my view, I’ve been saying this for years. […] We offer up our information and it’s just there on a plate for the spies to access. And we know they do through back doors and things. Yet that sort of information used to take them weeks or months to gather on an individual. |
They oppose intelligence agencies, governments and corporations. And for this, they are threatened, hounded and imprisoned.
Why are they so committed? What drives them? And is there a collective motive?
Digital Dissidents is a two-part documentary that goes into the heart and experiences of what it means to be a whistleblower and the nature of the quests to disclose radical truths hidden from society.