'Surveilled': Behind the spyware technology Trump could use to hack your phone

Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist Ronan Farrow looks at the issue in his new HBO Original documentary Surveilled.

Farrow: Israel has become a cradle for innovation in this kind of technology for a combination of reasons. Israel is a highly militarized state beset by all of these existential threats, and especially now in this state of conflict, there’s always a demand for more of this technology, including from private vendors, to deploy in the conflict.

Ronan Farrow : The Biden administration, the executive branch, can do relatively little, as far as I understand, that can’t be undone by the Trump administration.

More robust executive orders, you know, are a possibility, he says.

Kash Patel , the nominee for head of the FBI , has suggested that the executive should have absolute power, suggested that journalists should be prosecuted.

Ronan: In this incoming administration, we’re going to need the work of journalists more than ever.

Matt O’Neill traveled the world with Ronan as he interviewed people almost on every continent.

Ronan O'Neill : "This is not a partisan issue. People who don’t want big government, people who have traditional conservative values should especially care about protecting people from this tech".