"The company NSO group, which created Pegasus, a spyware deployed in 45 countries, targets journalists, human rights activists, and political figures and can hack into someone's smartphone and copy communication records, calls, apps, pictures, personal data and then disappear," Farrow said. "The message of this film is to understand how spyware can change civil liberties, such as the upcoming Trump administration promising mass deportation and using technology in spyware to achieve those goals and what that will look like for the future."

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