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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.