A massive surveillance dragnet in Catalonia showed us: when technology can turn any phone into a listening device & spy on citizens, "this is not an esoteric human rights problem that's far away. This is coming for all of us."
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social discusses with John Yang on @pbs.org News Hour

In footage from 'Surveilled'—on @pbs.org, USA's most trusted institution, with over 100M monthly viewers— MEP Jordi Solé discovers his phone was hacked: "Around that day, I was appointed member of the European Parliament... I feel surprised & angry..." #CatalanGate

On @pbs.org’s Amanpour & Co, @ronanfarrow.bsky.social discusses HBO Documentary 'Surveilled'. Following @citizenlab.ca's research, the documentary reveals the largest clusters of mercenary spyware victims worldwide in Catalonia—politicians, lawyers, journalists & civil leaders under surveillance.

"We associated [Pegasus] with autocracy, Saudi Arabia... Russia or China, but that this was happening in Spain..." - Director Matt O'Neill explains how he & Perri Peltz joined forces with @ronanfarrow.bsky.social to expose the largest cluster of Pegasus infections ever discovered.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org—independent global news hour airing on 1,500+ TV & Radio stations—interviews the creators of HBO Documentary 'Surveilled'. On YouTube alone, 350k+ viewers are learning how surveillance tech isn't just for autocracies anymore:

"Tenim un sistema extraordinàriament fort, però també fràgil" - Elías Campo

Tot i que pugui semblar oxímoron, aquesta dualitat és real. La comunitat científica hi posa molt esforç i dedicació, mantenint uns estàndards excel·lents malgrat la fragilitat i precarietat del sistema.

"Surveillance is not just information gathering, it is intimidation, and it inevitably shrinks the space for free expression and dissent"

From this weekend: @ronanfarrow.bsky.social discusses HBO Documentary 'Surveilled' on @npr.org, U.S. public radio network (41M weekly listeners)

'What happened in Spain... could happen here'
- @ronanfarrow.bsky.social warns as FBI/ICE explore similar spyware.

270K+ views on @cnn.com in <24h shows public interest in understanding these threats—a key step towards building the informed society that makes abuse harder. #Surveilled #CatalanGate