Out of Control: Journalism Under Surveillance | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In the past decade, governments have developed advanced surveillance tools that invade smartphones and other devices, ac | dG1fMEpEel9VeEJtNTQ

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00:00The technology is moving in such rapid ways that law is having a hard time keeping up

00:14with it.

00:15There's technology that is coming up that is clearly being used to violate human rights.

00:29There are people who didn't exercise journalism again.

00:32If the state's organizations are the ones doing this, what's left?

00:35Who have they spied on? How many have they spied on?

00:38They call us traitors because they assume that we, the media, have to be allies.

00:43He was being watched because of what I do or what I am.

00:47And we get a message on his cell phone.

00:50I imagine that this man, this older man, who is there, dressed in yellow.

00:55This is a video that appeared on Facebook.

00:58Latin America is going through a moment of fragile democracies.

01:03Governments have resorted to cite issues like national security, terrorism,

01:08to cover up their use of surveillance technology.

01:11In a region like this, journalistic research is necessary.

01:14There are reports in several countries in the region about the use of spy software.

01:19Who protects me in a context of an institution where they are not going to defend me?

01:23And we understand that a cell phone is also a tracking device.

01:26It has access to everything that your team can have access to.

01:30Threatening phone calls, WhatsApp messages,

01:33shipments of suffragettes, funeral wreaths.

01:35Several institutions acquired this software.

01:39Spyware is a weapon. It is a weapon.