Buzz Uncut: Caught in the net

Share

• Copy link
• Facebook
• X
• Whatsapp
• Pinterest
• Flipboard
• Email

Share this article

Join the conversation

Follow us

Add us as a preferred source on Google

Newsletter

Get the GamesRadar+ Newsletter

Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more

Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors

---

By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

You are now subscribed

Your newsletter sign-up was successful

---

Want to add more newsletters?

Every Friday

GamesRadar+

Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.

Signup +

Every Thursday

GTA 6 O'clock

Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.

Signup +

Every Friday

Knowledge

From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.

Signup +

Every Thursday

The Setup

Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.

Signup +

Every Wednesday

Switch 2 Spotlight

Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.

Signup +

Every Saturday

The Watchlist

Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.

Signup +

Once a month

SFX

Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!

Signup +

---

An account already exists for this email address, please log in.

Subscribe to our newsletter

You’re a bit of a police procedural perfectionist. How much did you change?

Without being critical of the writers, because they were more interested in getting the story straight, I did. With my experience of the FBI - my dad was an agent and I know how they think and work - and my knowledge of the Internet through my teenage daughter, pus police procedure from the TV shows I worked on over the years, I knew it wasn't right. So I enlisted EJ Hillbert, who is head of the cyber crime unit in Los Angeles, to help me correct it.

Are you afraid of giving crazy people ideas?

We have a tricky moral responsibility with the movie, but the fact is this stuff is going on. There are 300 million streaming videos per day in America. That’s nine billion a month. In Mexico, some of the drug gangs are streaming executions live to stop people from testifying against them. Untraceable is a cautionary tale and we're trying to make people more aware of what can go on.

Would people really watch someone die online?

Oh, yeah. We used to fill a coliseum with people watching Christian get fed to the lions. And in France, people would gather to watch people's heads being chopped off and have a party. We're just at the contemporary end of that. In the making of the movie, some of the researchers would get me things to see and I was appalled.

Have you become more careful on the 'net?

I use it for email, for writing and for news only. My daughter is out there in the universe and we watch her very carefully!