Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Panel: Dan McCrum, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Runa Sandvik
Moderator: John Scott-Railton

From the NSO Group to Wirecard via the activities of groups like Black Cube, Hacking Team and FinFisher, the last few years have seen a worrying trend – especially in collaborative, cross-border investigation – for governments and shady corporates to deploy spyware and private investigators to hack the phones of journalists and political dissidents. How do these snooping technologies work, and what can be done to thwart them?

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This discussion was recorded and broadcast as part of the 'CIJ Logan Symposium: Collective Intelligence', which took place online on 16-19 Nov 2020.
tcij.org/logan-symposium/collective-intelligence/programme

The CIJ Logan Symposium is a biennial event organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and made possible thanks to the support of the Reva & David Logan Foundation.
tcij.org/logan-symposium
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Website: tcij.org
Twitter: @cijournalism
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The Reva & David Logan Foundation
Website: loganfdn.org