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🚨NEW: @Amnesty briefing documents how mass data pipelines of gen AI systems are rooted in invasions of privacy by design.
Amnesty Tech
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Amnesty Tech
@AmnestyTech
Amnesty International - Tech.
We are a global collective of advocates, campaigners, hackers, researchers & technologists defending our rights in a digital age.
- Harassment of LGBTQ+ activists on @twitter has intensified since @elonmusk acquired the company -new survey from @amnestyusa @glaad @HRC shows. More: amnestyusa.org/press-releases…
- 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…
- NEW - Prominent Catalans unlawfully targeted with Pegasus spyware – new research by @citizenlab verified by @amnesty ‘s Security Lab
- 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…
- Replying to @AmnestyTechThe 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.
00:00 - 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…
- 📌@Meta must be held to account for discrimination and unjustified account takedowns of pro-Palestinian content on its platforms. With other digital rights groups, we @Amnesty, demand @Meta to #StopSilencingPalestine. accessnow.org/press-release/…
- 🚨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
