Surveilled Trailer

Surveilled Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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00:00Why should people around the world care about the hacking that you're documenting here?

00:06These cases affect 450 million people. It's a violation of their rights.

00:11What we ended up finding was actually the tip of the iceberg.

00:16Spyware is this powerful surveillance tool.

00:20Big spyware companies say they sell this tech only to governments.

00:24But this multi-billion dollar industry is mostly unregulated.

00:28The most advanced spyware can turn your smartphone into a spy in your pocket.

00:34It can copy everything and record you without you ever knowing.

00:38And then just disappear without a trace.

00:41This company, NSO Group, makes Pegasus, advanced spyware reportedly deployed in at least 45 countries.

00:49With allegations it's being used to target journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents.

00:56What's the most objectionable thing that you saw in your time at the company?

01:00One of the moral problems that I had was the journalist murder.

01:04Should people be concerned?

01:06Definitely, yes.

01:09Does NSO know that some of its customers are abusing this technology?

01:15This tool could fall into the hands of the Iranians, the North Koreans, the Chinese.

01:18We need our experts to know what is out there.

01:22They targeted my family.

01:24My mom, she worked at the hospitals, so they had access to hundreds of data applications all around the world.

01:32Do you think it's headed down a path of more domestic impact?

01:36These technologies, any various use that we can imagine, we're probably going to see.

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