A global investigation exposed how governments used the Pegasus spyware to hack journalists, activists, and political opponents. Phones turned into surveillance tools, privacy stripped without warrants.
Authoritarians love this technology. But democracies are no strangers either. The same politicians who praise “freedom” have no problem exploiting tools of control when convenient.
Civil liberties aren’t lost all at once. They’re chipped away, app by app, phone by phone. Pegasus is just the latest warning that rights on paper mean nothing if technology rewrites the rules.