'Black Mirror' Creates Privacy Problems it Warns Against

In 2008, "Black Mirror" creator Charlie Brooker warned of a future where the "marketing arm of OmniCorps Ltd." tracks "the entire nation's internet activity, viewing habits, credit card, use of public transport . . . in order to build an exhaustive database of consumer profiles." Reflecting these concerns, his popular Netflix show often features surreal, but plausible, scenarios of corporate data collection such as androids resurrecting the deceased's personalities from their social media histories, and aural implants, which record their users' memories. Ironically, Black Mirror's latest release, a film called "Bandersnatch," uses new interactive video technology to let a giant corporation probe its 137 million subscribers' activity to better market its services.