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Hacking cars and the surveillance state in Watch Dogs 2

2016-06-17
ah the San Francisco Bay I mean it's the birthplace of the modern technology and being a Hatcher game in a city like that it was just a perfect sitting on top of it it's sunny I mean there's a lot of color and you want to shift it though so for all these reasons we do that and it's not only San Francisco it's the whole Bay Area so yeah yeah Marin County you have Oakland you have Silicon Valley it's not a one-for-one of obviously you know roughly twice the size of watchdogs one but we have this you know big chunk of the Bay Area in our game can you give me some anecdotes about personal things the team encounters with technology that the team had were they like okay this is this is in the real word we want to bring it to the game because it affected me in this way I mean the most important one is as hiking cars you know that's it that's been a big big thing in the past few years and we obviously we use shortcuts because it's an action-adventure it's super quick and fast but you know the vehicles are really vulnerable and they enter through all sorts of ways and they can take control of their you know the steering system and all of these and actually self-driving cars now so there's a risk there and for us too we just put it you know as again for fun as a game play super useful but that's our that's a real thing is this something that now that you know all these things are possible because you've gotten done some of the research are you afraid of any of these things happening to you what are you afraid of in terms of technology yourself I would say I'm more aware you know because you can't live being afraid but you have to be aware that these things are you know exist and there's real real implications in those what are you what are you the most aware of when you go about your daily life well I guess the things I'm most worried about is things I don't know yeah you know if we know about it then it's good we can do something about it but what is being done with all this data you know and is it being misused in ways that I'm not aware of like my personal data are they you know can can you profile someone and you know learn about his lives and then overlap this information to be able to get a picture of someone and you know in a way so it's a bit big big big brother-ish you know it's like thinking okay where did you go what did you do who you are with and all these things overlap and now all this information is very personal and if you put that in public hands or in the wrong hands I don't think if it could be a bit worrying I think
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