Erasing David

How much information is there in the public domain on you and how easy it is to get that information?

With such open communication and data mining going on in today’s digital world, don’t you just wonder?

To test the reach of the information gathering systems, director Bond leaves his pregnant wife Katie and young child behind and drops off the grid. He challenges Britain’s top private investigators to track him using whatever information they can find in the public domain. But disappearing in Britain is not easy where the average British adult is registered on more than 700 databases and caught daily on one of the four million CCTV cameras.

During Bond’s journey, he’s chased across Europe. Bond’s inquisitive curiosity is infectious. The most chilling sequences feature people who have found themselves with criminal records due to data-collection errors. It’s also frightening to see the massive quantity of information kept in storage by businesses and government agencies. Bond’s adventure eventually leads him to a freaky cabin in Wales, where he feels paranoid and ironically exposed when his wife suddenly goes into labour.

Erasing David is a gripping film that makes us re-examine what information we put out into the public digital sphere.