
Panopticon
Surveillance cameras, data-collection contracts, and the phrase 'nothing to hide' recur throughout this Dutch production, which treats the sentence as an excuse rather than a defense. Peter Vlemmix, presenting, walks viewers through the everyday mechanisms that quietly narrow personal privacy, from commercial data harvesting to government monitoring, asking what accumulates when every transaction and movement gets logged somewhere. The film aired on Dutch broadcaster BNN via NPO and circulated separately in a Dutch-language cut, framing its argument as a warning aimed at people who assume they have nothing to worry about because they have nothing to hide. Interview subjects and on-screen examples build the case that control over daily life is expanding steadily and mostly out of sight, with privacy less a right people actively defend than a condition quietly disappearing around them. The film stays close to concrete instances of tracking and data use rather than abstract argument, aiming to make the erosion visible rather than theoretical.