Danny Boyle warning on 'controlling' data gathering

Film director Danny Boyle has expressed concern about the gathering of personal data by companies such as Facebook and Google.

"They're not really interested in our money anymore. Initially, they're interested in everything about us that we will give them and they will take possession of," he told Newsnight's Laura Kuenssberg.

"When people are reduced to data like that... I think culture has a wonderful part to play to stand up against that and actually say 'no'. Culture will tell you you're not just data, you're something else."

Boyle, whose latest film is a biography of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, was speaking following the opening of HOME, a new £25m art complex in Manchester, of which he is patron.