Oliver Stone alerts people over 'Pokemon Go'

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has warned people about the popular video game " Pokemon Go" and said it is a complete invasion of privacy.

The 69-year-old " Savages" filmmaker believes that it's not a joke and the game actually scans lot of personal information from your phone and a kind of surveillance could lead to "totalitarianism", reported Contactmusic.


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"It's not funny. What's happening is a new level of invasion. The profits are enormous here for places like Google. They've invested a huge amount of money in data mining what you are buying, what you like, your behaviour," Stone said.


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While promoting his new movie "Snowden" at San Diego, the filmmaker continued, "It's what some people call surveillance capitalism. You'll see a new form of, frankly, a robot society. It's what they call totalitarianism."

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