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Surveilled
2024 · Film · documentary · 60 min
Directed by Perri Peltz, Matthew O'Neill
Uncover the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In a gripping chase, Ronan Farrow travels across the world following breadcrumbs and finally exposing a dark world of spywares, hacking, and peddling of private information, where activists and journalists are persecuted, and no one is protected from the watchful and vicious eyes of authoritarianism.
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Pertinent and timely, after recently watching a great documentary on HBO Max about Pegasus, Surveilled by Ronan Farrow.
Commercial spyware, touted as a tool used by governments to fight terrorism, is now appearing on the phones of activists, journalists, politicians, and even ordinary people. In Surveilled, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates a clandestine industry that is reshaping the concepts of privacy and power, revealing the ethical dilemmas that both governments and citizens must navigate in the brave new world of cyberespionage.
HBO Documentary Films presents Surveilled. Producers and directors, Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz; producers, Ronan Farrow, Beth Morrissey, and Unjin Lee; editor, David Meneses; composer, Mac Quayle; writers, Ronan Farrow, Matthew O’Neill, and Perri Peltz. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez.
[1] https://www.hbo.com/movies/surveilled
After watching Surveilled on HBO last night (which was an expectedly overly sensationalist documentary with Ronan Farrow as the self centered host), they showed a security researcher wrapping a laptop with aluminum foil to stop signal from reaching it. Asking google about it was not helpful.