A former CIA officer has warned the world that every ‘government agency on Earth’ is able to listen through your phone.

It was a scene that was met with horror in the iconic The Dark Knight film, when Batman crosses an unethical line to turn every phone in Gotham City into his personal surveillance network so he can finally track down the Joker.

Well, such dystopian nightmares are no longer restricted to the land of fiction, according to former CIA officer Jason Hanson.

Hanson spent seven years in America’s Criminal Investigation Agency, joining when he was just 23, and has written a book sharing all the tricks of the trade called Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life.

The Doomsday prepper has a wife and eight kids but still manages to stock a year’s worth of food for each member of his family, showing just how pessimistic he is about the world.

It’s little wonder given the chilling revelation he shared with LADbible Stories, saying: “Every government agency on Earth can listen through your cell phone, can listen through your laptop, can listen through your cameras. It doesn’t matter what it is.

“If you think you have a cell phone that is gonna be like magic and the Agency’s not gonna listen in, they can.”

Hanson has warning for if you ‘really value your privacy,’
Hanson now teaches his finely honed CIA skills to anyone who needs them.

The Cedar City native runs a company called Spy Briefing, which trains celebrities, the rich and powerful and even ordinary people on evasion, escape, hand-to-hand self-defence, evasive driving, firearms and home defence.

Now he has now passed on some of his top advice.

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