Starting with a seemingly simple question – "Are our phones listening to us?" – a journalist dives into the question of surveillance and deciphers the transformation of our democracies into authoritarian kleptocracies.

A journalist sets out to investigate surveillance. From Cambridge Analytica to Pegasus, Predator, and Red Wolf, and through the rise of algorithmic video surveillance and voice recognition, she blows the whistle on mass surveillance, spyware, and other emerging weapons that threaten our security and our privacy.