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Jul 25 6 tweets 2 min read
An investigation led by @FbdnStories and supported by @Amnesty’s Security Lab has revealed that Israel’s government has attempted to sway an ongoing US lawsuit filed by WhatsApp against spyware firm NSO Group 🧵 👇 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/07… WhatsApp sued NSO Group in a California court in 2019 for allegedly abusing its platform to hack phones. Subsequently, NSO Group was potentially facing a pretrial procedure whereby they could be requested to hand over information such as internal documents amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Oct 9, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
🚨 The #PredatorFiles spyware scandal continues...

New investigation from @Amnesty Security Lab in collaboration with @EICnetwork reveals brazen targeting of civil society, politicians and officials around the world with “EU-regulated” spyware. 🧵

amnesty.org/en/latest/news… Predator spyware targets uncovered in extensive @AmnestyTech 50-page report include the accounts of Vietnamese journalists and opposition groups, as well as academics, EU political leaders and EU institutions, United Nations officials and diplomats.
Mar 23, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
🚨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
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… While France promotes itself as a champion of human rights globally, its decision to legalize AI-powered mass surveillance during the Olympics will lead to an all-out assault on the rights to privacy, protest, and freedom of assembly and expression.
Feb 3, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
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 Image The book reveals how @Amnesty and @ForbiddenStories joined forces to expose the global surveillance crisis powered by NSO Group's Pegasus - an invasive spyware tool that gives governments complete access to all information on the phones of victims
Jun 1, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
📢🚨 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… This innovative Fellowship is an opportunity for human rights defenders working at the nexus of human rights and technology to expand their learning on digital forensics and to work alongside the Security Lab to conduct unique research projects. amnesty.org/en/latest/rese…
Feb 15, 2022 5 tweets 5 min read
Today, the @EU_EDPS released its preliminary remarks on the use of intrusive spyware such as NSO Group’s Pegasus.

The EDPS is clear: the abuse of tools such as Pegasus pose a direct threat to the Right to Privacy and they must be banned.

@EU_EDPS Pegasus has been used to unlawfully target activists, journalists, lawyers and others globally – including in EU Member States such as Belgium, France, Hungary and Spain.

EU Commissioner @dreynders has also called for urgent action against the use of Pegasus spyware.
Jul 22, 2021 13 tweets 12 min read
We would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to the #PegasusProject . Today, we reflect on forensic & technical research conducted by @amnesty’s Security Lab that has helped expose the enormous scales of abuse linked to NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Thread 1/13 @amnesty We @amnesty began our research on NSO Group back in 2018, when one of our own staff members was targeted with this invasive spyware tool. The research also identified a Saudi activist was targeted in the same attacks. Read more: amnesty.org/en/latest/rese… 2/13