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‘Surveilled’ Trailer: Ronan Farrow Investigates How Your Phone Is Being Used To Spy On You

Watch the trailer for 'Surveilled,' the Ronan Farrow documentary on cell phone spyware that's being used to surveil you without your knowledge.

The release continues, “As Farrow exposes the complex relationship between the spyware-makers and the big tech companies dedicated to preventing security breaches of their platforms, Surveilled illuminates a clandestine business reshaping contemporary concepts of privacy and power and reveals the ethical dilemmas that citizens and governments must now navigate in the brave new world of cyberespionage. As Farrow follows a reporting trail to Barcelona, Spain, and the largest documented mass-hack using commercial spyware, the film reflects on the human consequences for communities caught in the crossfire of 21st century cyberwarfare.” Among the key participants in the film are Farrow, who writes for The New Yorker; fellow, Citizen Lab, Elies Campo; director, Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert; Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn), an intelligence expert who just won re-election to Congress; The New Yorker editor David Remnick; former executive editor, The New Yorker, David Rohde; director, Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Nathaniel Fick; former engineering manager, WhatsApp, Claudiu Dan Gheorghe; head of Whatsapp, Will Cathcart; former member of the European Parliament, Jordi Solé Ferrando; NSO Group’s Leoz Michaelson, Omer Len, Shmuel Sunray, Yochany Manoff, Ellynoy Baron, and Tal Agam; journalist at Haaretz, Chaim Levinson; Spanish senator, Laura Castel Fort; activist and former spyware engineer, Joan Matamala; as well as former Israeli Knesset Member Sami Abu Shehadeh.

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