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@amnestytech

@amnestytech
24 posts
2025-09-09
🚨NEW: An investigation by @Amnesty & partners exposes a shadowy surveillance & censorship expansion in Pakistan via foreign firms. It reveals Geedge Networks from China supplying the firewall & German Utimaco providing the LIMS system #BreakTheFirewall https://www.amnesty.org/...
2025-09-09 View on X
Reuters

Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China

Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media …

The year-long investigation was carried out in collaboration with Paper Trail Media @paper_trail_m, DER STANDARD @derStandardat, Follow the Money, The Globe and Mail @globeandmail, Justice For Myanmar @JusticeMyanmar, InterSecLab and the Tor Project @torproject.
2025-09-09 View on X
Reuters

Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China

Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media …

2024-12-16
Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using spyware alongside a suite of mobile phone forensic tools to conduct unlawful surveillance against journalists and activists. Digital repression is just one tactic used to silence civil society & peaceful protest in Serbia.
2024-12-16 View on X
404 Media

Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware

Authorities in Serbia have repeatedly used Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware …

🚨 NEW: Serbian authorities have used highly invasive spyware, including NSO Group's Pegasus, as well as digital forensic tools to target activists & journalists during periods of detention or routine police interviews, @Amnesty investigation reveals. https://securitylab.amnesty.org/ ...
2024-12-16 View on X
404 Media

Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware

Authorities in Serbia have repeatedly used Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware …

2024-04-11
🚨Apple has sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries informing them they “are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack” If you're a member of civil society + received an alert, you can request forensic support using our Get Help form👇https://securitylab.amnest y.org/ ...
2024-04-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Apple sends threat notifications to individuals in 92 countries, warning them that their iPhone may have been targeted by remote “mercenary spyware attacks”

Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.

2023-11-01
🚨🧵NEWS: As UK's #AISafetySummit kicks off today, it must set the right example in the global race to regulate AI & not be led by speculative discourses on ‘existential threats’ of these technologies. Our statement 👇 https://www.amnesty.org/...
2023-11-01 View on X
Financial Times

Ahead of the UK's AI summit, Chinese scientists warned of AI's “existential risk to humanity”; the UK announces that South Korea will host the next AI Summit

Attendees of Bletchley Park gathering convened by UK premier Rishi Sunak warn of ‘existential risk to humanity’

🚨🧵NEWS: As UK's #AISafetySummit kicks off today, it must set the right example in the global race to regulate AI & not be led by speculative discourses on ‘existential threats’ of these technologies. Our statement 👇 https://www.amnesty.org/...
2023-11-01 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute

The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …

2023-10-09
🚨 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. 🧵 https://www.amnesty.org/...
2023-10-09 View on X
Washington Post

Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and policy experts via posts on X

The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi

2023-07-05
🚨🚨We welcome Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on how @Meta's surveillance business model violates EU law. The ruling is a blow to the surveillance advertising business model which underpins Meta, fundamentally undermining rights https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-07-05 View on X
Bloomberg

The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling

This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 4 … Wall Street Journal : Meta's Facebook Faces Fresh Threat to Sending Personalized Ads in EU Javier E...

🚨🚨We welcome Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling on how @Meta's surveillance business model violates EU law. The ruling is a blow to the surveillance advertising business model which underpins Meta, fundamentally undermining rights https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-07-05 View on X
TechCrunch

For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking

Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day …

2023-03-30
NEW 📢 Amnesty's Security Lab uncovers hacking campaign targeting Android users with zero-day exploits. Attack had all the hallmarks of an advanced spyware campaign by a commercial cyber-surveillance company sold to government hackers. 1/5 https://www.amnesty.org/...
2023-03-30 View on X
The Record

Google's Threat Analysis Group details two limited but highly targeted spyware campaigns using several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS, and Chrome

Two targeted spyware campaigns involving several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS and mobile versions of the Chrome browser were unmasked …

2023-03-24
🚨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 https://www.amnesty.org/...
2023-03-24 View on X
Politico

France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance

PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.

2022-07-25
“Google's machine learning capabilities along with the Israeli state's surveillance infrastructure poses a real threat to the human rights of Palestinians,” says @amnesty's @Damini_Satija https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-25 View on X
The Intercept

Google employees, kept in the dark about firm's sale of advanced AI tools to Israel, say it could bolster Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestine

Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Tweets: @timnitgebru , @amnestytech , @jathansadowski , and @samfbiddle Tweets: Timnit Gebru / @timnitgebru : “documents indicate that the new cloud w...

2021-12-18
@Meta @amnesty Our partners at @CitizenLab have published a detailed technical analysis of the Cytrox mobile spyware which they linked to an unlawful surveillance campaign targeting an Egyptian journalist and Ayman Nour, an Egyptian political activist https://citizenlab.ca/...
2021-12-18 View on X
The Citizen Lab

Two Egyptians living in exile had their iPhones compromised in June 2021 using Predator spyware built by North Macedonian developer Cytrox

@Meta @amnesty Our partners at @CitizenLab have published a detailed technical analysis of the Cytrox mobile spyware which they linked to an unlawful surveillance campaign targeting an Egyptian journalist and Ayman Nour, an Egyptian political activist https://citizenlab.ca/...
2021-12-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta bans seven surveillance-for-hire groups, including Cytrox, removing over 1,500 Facebook and Instagram accounts and alerting 50K users who were targeted

Cytrox is one of seven surveillance companies now banned from Meta's platforms  —  While NSO Group was taking flak for hacking …

2021-12-17
@Meta @amnesty Our partners at @CitizenLab have published a detailed technical analysis of the Cytrox mobile spyware which they linked to an unlawful surveillance campaign targeting an Egyptian journalist and Ayman Nour, an Egyptian political activist https://citizenlab.ca/...
2021-12-17 View on X
The Citizen Lab

Two Egyptians living in exile had their iPhones compromised in June 2021 using Predator spyware built by North Macedonian developer Cytrox

Key Findings  — Two Egyptians—exiled politician Ayman Nour and the host of a popular news program (who wishes to remain anonymous) …

2021-10-25
New from @washingtonpost : Mark Zuckerberg personally made a decision to comply with Vietnamese government demands to censor dissidents, harming their right to free speech. Another example of @Facebook prioritizing profits over human rights. 1/2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

2021-09-18
More from @WSJ - @Facebook 's own tools undermined Mark Zuckerberg's goal to support the vaccine roll-out. An internal memo reported that even authoritative sources of vaccine information were becoming a “cesspool of anti-vaccine comments” #FacebookFiles https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-09-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines

Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple ...

NEW: Latest #FacebookFiles @WSJ report how @Facebook has rapidly expanded across the world - without caring about the consequences. Former VP says company treats harm in developing countries as “simply the cost of doing business”. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-09-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines

Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple ...

2021-09-17
NEW: Latest #FacebookFiles @WSJ report how @Facebook has rapidly expanded across the world - without caring about the consequences. Former VP says company treats harm in developing countries as “simply the cost of doing business”. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding