Amnesty International - Tech.
We are a global collective of advocates, campaigners, hackers, researchers & technologists defending our rights in a digital age.
Journalists and @amnesty have had access to over 50k phone numbers of people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO.
It includes world leaders, activists and journalists.
Here's how our Security Lab analysed the phones -
Amnesty International categorically stands by the findings of the Pegasus Project, and that the data is irrefutably linked to potential targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
Exciting week for us with the publication of “Pegasus”, the inside story of one of @amnesty most ground-breaking investigations of recent years: the #PegasusProject
Massive data leak reveals over 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets for clients of spyware company NSO.
These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family.
📢🚨 We are thrilled to launch the Digital Forensics Fellowship, a new programme that will run from July 2022 to May 2023 with a first cohort of 5 Fellows. For more information check out the thread 🧵 and link below: careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/digita…
Facebook is a surveillance advertising company whose business relies on exploiting our data and invading our privacy on a vast scale.
Now it has teamed up with Ray-Ban to sell camera glasses.
@ray_ban have you thought this through? buzzfeednews.com/article/katien…
The false rumours being pushed on social media are intended to distract from the widespread unlawful targeting of journalists, activists and others that the #PegasusProject has revealed.
NEW RESEARCH: Israel is violating the human rights of Palestinians through the use of facial recognition in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Palestinians have the right to live in a world where equality and dignity are respected - this technology is making it impossible.
With the #EUCouncil set to vote on the "Chat Control" proposal, a reminder:
It's impossible to create a technological system that can scan the contents of private electronic communication while preserving the right to privacy.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…
🚨The French National Assembly (@AssembleeNat) has permitted the use of AI-powered mass surveillance at the 2024 Paris Olympics. This completely undermines the EU’s ongoing efforts to regulate AI and protect fundamental rights through the #AIAct