> Turner-Himes amendment lists some business types that are excepted from the requirement to help spy – like dwellings and restaurants – an almost limitless number of entities that provide wifi or just have access to Americans’ devices could be roped into the government’s surveillance operations. Using the wifi in your dentist office, hiring a cleaner who has access to your laptop, or even storing communications equipment in an office you rent could all expose you to increased risk of surveillance.
„In February 2007, Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella announced a deal with The Weinstein Company to produce and direct an English-language remake of The Lives of Others. Minghella died in March 2008 and Pollack died less than three months later.“
There are several other interesting Berlin/East Germany films worth looking at. There is a very old and silly one called "One Two Three". It involves the Coca Cola. Not that it is a great film, but rather a Western/American take on Berlin at the time. Much better is "Good bye Lenin." Very haunting and peculiar. Not Berlin/East Germany but in the same vein is 'The Unbearable lightness of Being'.
Super great movie. We watched it in our transitional justice class in university. Our professor was from the eastern bloc and grew up with the informants and the collapse of it all. It was interesting to study what happens after the end of an oppressive regime. The movie illustrated that pretty well in its timeline.
I saw this movie at the theatre when it came out. TBH, while I'm interested in the subject, I didn't like it all that much. It thought it kinda flopped as an arthouse movie. The content itself was not particularly rich and obviously not novel, at least for anyone who has ever read about the Stasi.
That confuses me. There's not much about The Lives of Others that one could dislike that one would not also dislike about any other drama based on realistic characters and situations.
No worries. I'm actually not a huge fan of art films, which might explain my confusion. I tend to like traditional dramas about believable characters and situations, and I just thought of The Lives of Others as that sort of thing, aside from it being German language. But every year, fewer dramas like that come out, so I am probably showing my age.
"China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from cameras to monitor citizens" (2017), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643433
"The Stasi Had a Giant Smell Register of Dissidents” (2021), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998162
"US reauthorizing and expanding surveillance laws" (2024), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/house-fisa-g...
> Turner-Himes amendment lists some business types that are excepted from the requirement to help spy – like dwellings and restaurants – an almost limitless number of entities that provide wifi or just have access to Americans’ devices could be roped into the government’s surveillance operations. Using the wifi in your dentist office, hiring a cleaner who has access to your laptop, or even storing communications equipment in an office you rent could all expose you to increased risk of surveillance.
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