{"id":189414,"date":"2021-07-26T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=189414"},"modified":"2021-07-21T06:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:09:05","slug":"edward-snowden-on-spyware-this-is-an-industry-that-should-not-exist-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/07\/edward-snowden-on-spyware-this-is-an-industry-that-should-not-exist-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden on Spyware: &#8216;This Is an Industry That Should Not Exist&#8217; (videos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>19 Jul 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reacts to the Pegasus project disclosures about widespread abuse of NSO Group&#8217;s spyware by governments around the world. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5WjTTi67BE<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"style-scope\">Pegasus: The Spyware Technology That Threatens Democracy<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone&#8217;s security and gaining complete access to your device &#8211; including emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video, and your phone&#8217;s microphone. A Guardian investigation can now reveal widespread abuse of the Pegasus technology by government clients around the world who purchased the spyware from its Israeli manufacturer \u2014 the NSO Group. People who were selected as possible targets include journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G7H9uo3j5FQ&amp;t=0s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Jul 2021 &#8211; The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reacts to the Pegasus project disclosures. Plus: Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone&#8217;s security and gaining complete access to your device: emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video, microphone. Widespread abuse of the Pegasus technology by government clients around the world. People who were selected as possible targets include journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":189421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[910,1082,958,2607,1017,125,88,378,234,2608,2606,1220,1277,1109,911],"class_list":["post-189414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-feature","tag-big-brother","tag-cellphones","tag-control","tag-forbidden-stories","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-israel","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-nso","tag-pegasus-project","tag-privacy","tag-privacy-rights","tag-spying","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}