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Last year, @amnesty revealed technical evidence of spyware firms like Intellexa developing tools for zero-click infection through online ads.
We warned of a dangerous new threat to civil society. Now @citizenlab has caught devices at Al Jazeera being hacked via malicious ads. 🧵
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As the demand for generative AI has snowballed, the scale of the development of these technologies has spun out of control.
Complex supply chains are required to power these systems, presenting us with a trail of human rights risks at every step of their production.
These design choices must be challenged.
They are not inevitable.
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1/ NEW REPORT: Former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on the EU committee investigating Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Full report: citizenlab.ca/research/membe…
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Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.
Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.
We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.
Read the report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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Excited to see @Google launch Intrusion Logging, the first purpose-built system to enable forensic investigations of advanced attacks on mobile.
@AmnestyTech has worked with @Android as a design partner, during the development of Intrusion Logging and Advanced Protection Mode
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We are confronting the most challenging moment of our age. Humanity is under attack from transnational anti-rights movements and predatory governments determined to assert their dominance through unlawful wars and brazen economic blackmail.
What marks this moment as fundamentally different is that we’re no longer documenting erosion around the system’s edges. This is a direct assault on the foundations of human rights and the international rules-based order by the most powerful actors for the purpose of control, impunity and profit.
For the sake of humanity, the time to make history is now. #HumanityMustWin
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What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today?
Our report examines 144 countries and paints a picture of States playing with a fire that threatens to scorch the future for generations to come.
Read more: amn.st/6012B6A1yC
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People in Iran have lived under digital darkness for 1000 hours. Authorities have cut off 90+ million from the outside world since 28 February, preventing people from accessing essential information and contacting loved ones. Authorities must immediately restore internet access.
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It has been a big week for documentaries exposing the harms of social media algorithms - Molly vs the Machines, Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere, and now Inside the Rage Machine reveals leaked internal documents - pulling back the curtain on how these systems really work.
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We are finally seeing consequences for those involved in the abuse of surveillance technology.
We hope this landmark ruling signals the end of the era of impunity for the surveillance industry.
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Σχεδόν 4 χρόνια μετά το σκάνδαλο Predatorgate βλέπουμε επιτέλους τις συνέπειες για όσους εμπλέκονται στην κατάχρηση της τεχνολογίας παρακολούθησης.
Παραμένουν τα ερωτήματα σχετικά με τον ρόλο της 🇬🇷 κυβέρνησης η οποία αρνείται συστηματικά ότι αγόρασε ή χρησιμοποίησε το Predator.
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Today EU and Angolan ministers meet in Brussels - an opportunity for both sides to act to curb spyware abuses.
A recent @amnesty investigation underlines the real-world cost of the development, sale and use of spyware technologies.
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No more AI Act loopholes!
We demand that EU co-legislators reject attempts to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act.
Read more in our open letter ⬇️
accessnow.org/press-release/…
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While people in Iran are still reeling from the grief and shock of the unprecedented massacres during protest dispersals, the Iranian authorities are waging a coordinated attack on the rights of people in Iran to life, dignity and fundamental freedoms in a criminal bid to terrorize the population into silence.
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Iranian authorities imposed an internet shutdown on 8 January to conceal their crimes.
Speak out against the mass killings.
Protesters in Iran need global solidarity.
#DigitalBlackoutlran
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With reports of a rising death toll in Iran, @amnesty reiterates its calls for urgent global diplomatic action, warning of the risk of further bloodshed amid the internet blackout providing cover for security forces who commit grave violations.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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[ON AIR] @peterndoro speaks to Victor Ndede, Head of Programs at Amnesty International Kenya, regarding a new report detailing how Kenyan authorities utilized technology to suppress youth-led protests between 2024 and 2025.
Full interview: tinyurl.com/2ausxh59
#RiseAndShine #Kenya
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See you-next Wednesday-at Ibraaz in London:
--->Technology & Power 002
I will be joined by the incredible Alia Al Ghussain and Matt Mahmoudi of @AmnestyTech for a deepdive on the urgent topics of Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights.
Sign up: ibraaz.org/whats-on/technolo…
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It was a privilege to deliver the closing keynote at Hexacon yesterday. Great conference!
Kudos to the organisers for featuring a defenders perspective. Thanks too to the many offensive researchers who engaged with an open mind, and then many interesting discussions.
It's time for the highly anticipated closing keynote by Donncha Ó Cearbhaill (@DonnchaC): Where the shells land: a forensic perspective on in-the-wild exploitation
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The 12-month deadline that the UN General Assembly resolution set for Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territory expires today, yet Israel continues to starve and slaughter desperate Palestinians on a daily basis. States and companies must confront the global political economy underpinning Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid.
Amnesty International is calling on states to ban, with immediate effect, the supply to Israel of all arms, military and security equipment and services, and all surveillance equipment, artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure used to support surveillance, security and military activity.
Amnesty is also calling for a stop of trade with and investment in companies based anywhere around the world that are contributing to Israel’s genocide, apartheid or unlawful occupation. Read more about the global political economy underpinning Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid.
