“
Can the government use hacking techniques to catch a
criminal, and, if so, what kind of warrant do they need?”—Andy Greenberg,
WIRED
It’s an important question that faces us in the second
decade of the 21
st century. How do we maintain the privacy that is
so essential to our society when the internet allows for so many ways to
destroy it? Alex Winter’s “Deep Web” could someday make an interesting
companion piece to Laura Poitras’ award-winning “Citizenfour” in that both
films are about men whose fates are intertwined with that conversation about
privacy, legality and the gray area in between. Sadly, while Winter’s film,