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19 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Huge kudos to the Pegasus Project’s group of international reporters who are shedding new light on the insidiousness of NSO Group’s spyware.

washingtonpost.com/investigations…
EFF has raised the alarm for years about tech companies selling their surveillance and censorship products and services to repressive regimes.

eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
We filed a brief in December urging the Ninth Circuit not to grant immunity to notorious NSO Group for selling its spyware to foreign governments.

eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
Tech companies should be incentivized to do everything they can to ensure their products aren’t used to target journalists, activists, and dissidents. And they should face liability if they fail to take reasonable steps to protect all of their users.

eff.org/deeplinks/2011…

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One year ago, we launched the Atlas of Surveillance. It’s the largest public database of known police surveillance technologies that have been used across the country. Check it out: atlasofsurveillance.org
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The built environment of surveillance—in, over, and under our cities—makes it an entwined problem that must be combatted through entwined solutions. To make it easier to see, we've visualized it in a cross-section of the average city block: eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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