In countries under authoritarian regimes, your smartphone can easily be used as a surveillance tool to monitor your movements and online activity.
Through a covert software known as Pegasus, smartphone surveillance is at an all-time high, and this can be done through the simple click of a button.
The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, detailed how the software has been used all across the world, mostly in countries under authoritarian regimes, as leaders try to clamp down on dissidents and promote censorship.
This is particularly relevant to the Kenyan context, where a heightened interest in government affairs by Kenyans and greater promotion of civic education through online activism has prompted a response from the State, as seen in alleged cases of abductions and enforced disappearances.
