Surveilled

2024

Documentary

4
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 699 699

israel high tech surveillance surveillance information technology internet surveillance israeli mafia

Please enable your VPΝ when downloading torrents

If you torrent without a VPΝ, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action!

Get Expert VPΝ

Plot summary

Uncover the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In a gripping chase, Ronan Farrow travels across the world following breadcrumbs and finally exposing a dark world of spywares, hacking, and peddling of private information, where activists and journalists are persecuted, and no one is protected from the watchful and vicious eyes of authoritarianism.

Director

Perri Peltz Photo
Perri Peltz

Top cast

Christiane Amanpour Photo
Christiane Amanpour as Self - Host, Amanpour & Co.
Ron Deibert Photo
Ron Deibert as Self
Ronan Farrow Photo
Ronan Farrow as Self
David Remnick Photo
David Remnick as Self
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
562.43 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 1 min
Seeds 15
1.12 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 1 min
Seeds 49

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Marc-Drost 7 / 10

A piece of a larger puzzle

On the positive side, this documentary informs the public and it's a good thing imo that it is being done trough this more mainstream channel and spokesperson. So I give it high marks for effort and exposure.However, as other reviewers point out. There are noteworthy omissions. First of all, the spyware is being developed in Israel. It is strange, in the context of the ongoing war in Gaza and the situation in the occupied West Bank, that there is no mention of Palestine at all. By now, we are informed, most notably through the excellent book The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein, of how this type of software is being tested in the apartheid regime, on the Palestinian population. But I guess this can be excused because the documentary would probably get shunned by many outlets if this disgraceful chapter would be included. Also it would have been interesting to know more about which countries are using it.Conclusion: the doc leaves me hungry for more in depth and elaborate information. But stimulating this appetite is a good thing, hence my 7 stars.
Reviewed by JensSeidl 4 / 10

Disappointing Ronan Show

Unfortunately, this documentary is nowhere near as hard hitting as it makes out to be. The scope of the investigation is rather narrow. Especially given the accusations about countries in the Middle East and Africa abusing modern surveillance technology, none of this is actually substantiated. Instead the investigation focuses on one ology provider (who opened their doors willingly in a PR trust exercise), the US, and Spain. To make things worse, the style of the documentation is heavily focused on the author and narrator, Ronan Farrow, and therefore turns into a personality show about him, rather than the real subject matter. This leaves the viewer with a sense of a missed opportunity.
Reviewed by paul-allaer 7 / 10

Hot topic deserves a more in-depth assessment

As "Surveilled" (2024 release; 61 min) opens, we are in "Tel Aviv, March 2022" and investigative reporter Ronan Farrer is speaking with someone about Pegasus, the spyware made and owned by Israeli company NSO Group. Pegasus is the best known of the spywares out there and is completely intrusive. It can access any and all smart phone remotely and completely, with you ever knowing about it. At this point we are less than 10 minutes into the documentary.Couple of comments: while the upsides of spywares are obvious (to combat terrorists and murderers), the downsides are even scarier (to track political opponents, etc.). And as this documentary shows, the latter is being done more and more (the Spanish government used it to track Catalan politicians in favor of splitting from Spain). All super interesting stuff. Alas, at just 60 minutes, it all flies by in no time. I wish that Ferrar and the film makers had spent a little more time digging around to show more examples of authorities abusing the spyware for political advantage. When asked how to curb a nefarious use of spyware like Pegasus, a talking head laments "you can't put the spyware genie back into the bottle, I'm afraid". In other words: it's going to get (a lot) worse before it'll get better..."Surveilled" recently started showing on HBO and streaming on Max, where I caught it the other night. If you have an interest better understanding the potential (up and down) of spyware like Pegasus, this is a good starter (but the last word on this is surely yet to come). I'd readily suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.
Read more IMDb reviews

10 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment