British human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani had been stopped and interrogated on the UK border on a number of earlier situations – the consequence, he says wryly, of being a Muslim man with a beard. However this time was totally different: the interviewer requested for the password to his digital units, and when Rabbani refused – his shoppers are susceptible, their info extremely delicate – he was arrested and charged.
Kate Stonehill’s eye-opening and at instances barely muddled documentary makes use of Rabbani’s case as a jumping-off level to discover the Orwellian surveillance actions of the UK; the potential for abuse of Schedule 7 of the 2000 Terrorism Invoice and the terrifying quantities of information about every certainly one of us that may be mined from our cell phones.
