| Name | Description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Do Not Track | An interactive documentary experience. Your apps share a lot of the private info on your phone with marketing agencies, phone operators and others. Where does all that data go, and what happens with it? | 2015 |
| Meet Thomas Drake | An AJ+’s interactive documentary project about whistleblower Thomas Drake National Security Agency whistleblower and former NSA senior executive Thomas Drake talks about how the U.S. government violates our privacy by accessing our data without our consent. | 2015 |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO) | There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics. | 2015 |
| The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information (CBS) | Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight. | 2014 |
| Inside the Dark Web (BBC) | With many concerned that governments and corporations can monitor our every move, Horizon meets the hackers and scientists whose technology is fighting back. It is a controversial technology, and some law enforcement officers believe it is leading to risk-free crime on the dark web - a place where almost anything can be bought, from guns and drugs to credit card details. Featuring interviews with the inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the co-founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. | 2015 |
| Frontline: United States of Secrets (PBS) | this film reveals the inside story of how the US government came to monitor the communications of millions of people around the world -- and how they tried to hide this massive surveillance programme from the public. | 2014 |
| Frontline: Spying On The Home Front (PBS) | In "Spying on the Home Front," reporter Hedrick Smith presents new material on how the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program works and examines clashing viewpoints on whether the President has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and infringed on constitutional protections. | 2007 |
| Panorama: Edward Snowden: Spies and the Law (BBC One) | In his first UK TV interview US whistleblower Edward Snowden has given the BBC new details of GCHQ's ability to hack users' smart phones without their knowledge. Mr Snowden, a former analyst with the US National Security Agency (NSA) told Panorama there was "very little" the public could do to stop GCHQ - the British government's digital spy agency - getting control of their handsets. He described a series of intercept capabilities named after Smurfs - the little blue imps of Belgian cartoon fame. The UK government declined to comment on "intelligence matters". | 2015 |
| Phone Hackers: Britain's Secret Surveillance (Motherboard/Vice) | IMSI catchers are portable surveillance tools used for spying on thousands of phones in a targeted area, tracking their location and even intercepting calls, messages, and data. They are supposed to help identify serious criminals, but cannot operate without monitoring innocent people too. | 2016 |
| In Google We Trust (ABC) | In Google We Trust: We pump Google full of personal data. But where does it all go and how is it used? Every hour of every day, our digital interactions are being recorded and logged. We live in the age of 'big data', where the seemingly mundane information of our everyday existence has enormous value. With the help of expert data trackers, this revealing doc offers a comprehensive look at how governments and large companies keep tabs on us. | 2013 |
| The power of privacy | In this film, Aleks Krotoski travels the world to undergo challenges that explore our digital life in the 21st century. Watch her be stalked and hacked, fight to get leaked documents back, dive into open data and live in a futuristic home that monitors her every move. Available on The Guardian Youtube and Silent Circle Youtube channels | 2016 |
| Rebel Geeks - Give Us Back Our Data (Al Jazeera English) | In this film, Morozov unravels the digital landscape and shows us the real processes that are leading the huge transfer of power away from ordinary people. Morozov shows us how cutting-edge biometric and facial recognition technology leads to a world without privacy | 2015 |
| Collect It All: America's Surveillance State - Fault Lines (Al Jazeera English) | What does it mean to live in a surveillance state? What does it mean to live in a surveillance state? Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA’s mass data collection programs by speaking to the people at the center of the story, including journalist Glenn Greenwald and NSA director Keith Alexander. Greenwald tells Fault Lines how he got the Snowden documents, what the main revelations are, and why people should care. We also speak with William Binney, an NSA whistleblower who tells us the main turning point was 9/11, when the NSA vastly expanded its programs and began collecting the data of Americans, not just foreigners as they had been before. | 2013 |
| Free the Network: Hackers Take Back the Web (Motherboard/Vice) | Motherboard's documentary on Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond. | 2012 |
| Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man S02E04: Privacy (CNN) | Morgan Spurlock uncovers the scary truth about big data collecting and learns how easy is it to track someone online. | 2014 |
| Snowden's Cryptographer on the NSA & Defending the Internet (Motherboard/Vice) | Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, author of dozens of books on computer and real-world security, was tapped by The Guardian to help the newspaper decode the NSA documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. We met with him in Cambridge, Massachusetts to talk about the risks of widespread digital surveillance, the problem with thinking about those risks, and the ways that the public can demand change. | 2013 |
| Why Care About the N.S.A.? (The New York Times Op-Docs) | A short film explores whether ordinary Americans should be concerned about online surveillance. Available on Youtube | 2013 |
| NSA Whistle-Blower Tells All: The Program (The New York Times Op-Docs) | The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data | 2012 |
| U.S. v. Whistleblower Tom Drake (CBS 60 Minutes) | Tom Drake, a former NSA senior executive indicted last year for espionage after leaking to the media allegations that the nation's largest intelligence organization had committed fraud, waste and abuse will appear in his first television interview. Scott Pelley reports | 2011 |