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Irwin Winkler's 1995 thriller The Net feels newly relevant

Original: # Cine La red, Irwin Winkler, 1995 A mediados de la década de los años noventa, el cine de Hollywood empezó a explorar e

Discussion has turned to The Net, Irwin Winkler's 1995 thriller starring as a Hollywood take on mid-1990s fears about computers connected to vast databases. Commenters argue the film anticipated today's dangers of identity theft, surveillance and online data misuse, making a three-decade-old suspense film strikingly current as concerns over digital privacy grow.

Why now: Renewed anxiety over data privacy and online identity theft is making people revisit the film's prescient themes.

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• # Cine La red, Irwin Winkler, 1995 A mediados de la década de los años noventa, el cine de Hollywood empezó a explorar el miedo a las computadoras conectadas a grandes bases de datos a través de una historia de suspenso que se adelantó por completo a los peligros que hoy… · MDT@mast.lat · 1

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