"Article 12" is a new documentary that uses the twelfth article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to chart the current state of privacy around the world and provide a thought-provoking exposé on our current obsession with voyeurism, surveillance technologies, power and control.
Starting from our own private spying habits, Article 12 examines how vulnerable and exposed we have become in our relationship to each other and as a society and talks about those who are gaining from this condition.
It brings together the world’s leading academics, philosophers, cultural figures and technologists - including New Transparency team member David Murakami Wood - to highlight the devastating potency of surveillance and the dangers of public and individual complicity, and presents a growing movement fighting for the upkeep of our right to privacy. Article 12 confronts these issues head-on to provide a powerful wake-up call as we sleepwalk into a worldwide surveillance society.
The Surveillance Studies Centre
c/o David Murakami Wood
Department of Criminology
University of Ottawa
Canada