Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time… in the coming days the Guardian will be revealing the identities of many innocent people who have been identified as candidates for possible surveillance by NSO clients in a massive leak of data.
Huge data leak shatters lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
Our investigation shows how repressive regimes can buy and use the kind of spying tools Edward Snowden warned us about
One reason people voted populist or for Trump was because they wanted to stop or slow down the control juggernaut that everywhere seemed to be taking over the world. 2020 was meant to signal “resistance is futile”.