Useful background from @ramshajahangir.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social for anyone prepping for a potential announcement of an EU enforcement action against Elon Musk's X: www.techpolicy.press/understandin...

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act. See ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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So many layers of surveillance

From speculation over the chief Prosecutor's future & US sanctions against the #ICC, to a sense of resilience & the surrender of a Libyan suspect in the middle of the night, I put together my thoughts on what was a remarkable few days in The Hague: justiceinconflict.org/2025/12/04/t... #ASP24

I confess that i didn't have "crowdsourced GIS platforms manipulated to game online bets on active frontline advances" on my bingo card and that's on me, I should know better www.instagram.com/reel/DR12pyJ...

‘It was about degrading someone completely’: the story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Apparently, #Ukraine has decided to 'suspend' the Ottawa Convention, which is not even permitted under the treaty. Being in armed conflict is certainly not reason to 'suspend' #IHL. That's the whole point; that's when IHL applies! #intLaw www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

My coulour of the year is more on the "Raging dumpster fire inpost nuclear wasteland" tone but ok

Humanitarians, what stops you from being like this

Interesting artefact in the uploaded JSKit code used by Intellexa from Google's Threat Intelligence Group. "//TODO: va bene solo per ios 15 perchè l'exploit è uguale per tutte le version 15.0.x infatti se inferiore a 15.1 restituisce sempre 15.0" - some italian.... cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

Wherever there's spyware, there's always an Italian angle...

NEW: Staffers at notorious spyware maker Intellexa had live remote access to their customers' surveillance systems. This allowed them to see the personal data of targets hacked with Intellexa's spyware Predator, according to research based on a leaked training video. Needless to say, this is bad.

The attacks, which have impacted dozens of organizations, date back at least three years, lasting an average of 393 days. And that’s just what’s been uncovered in the last four months. via @mattkapko.com cyberscoop.com/china-bricks...

This case is ripe for investigation and prosecution under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Canada must act now. Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles: cbc.ca/news/world/s... #cdnpoli #KeepEyesOnSudan

It was one of a trio of reports about the spyware vendor over the course of a day, with additional evidence about further infections among the findings. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/intellexa-re...

🚨 - New report by Haaretz, Inside Story, Inside-IT and Amnesty International release the Intellexa Leaks. Which exposes Intellexa support staff had access through Teamviewer to customer deployments and confirms found IOC's in the past by civil society. 🧵👇

Bellingcat has pieced together a detailed view of a crisis that has left much of Mali in the dark. Learn how the attacks behind the fuel shortages brought daily life to a halt here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

A must-watch interview with the International Criminal Court Judge Kimberly Prost on the effects of US sanctions on her life. These sanctions are an offence against the administration of ICC justice – and an attack on each of the 125 states parties' sovereignty. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Opportunity for an early career journalist to hone their OSINT skills on public interest investigations with a great organization, @lighthousereports.com. apply.workable.com/lighthouse-r...

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This was such a delight to edit and work on. Our latest story for @globalvoices.org "Queer cinema in Azerbaijan tells stories of visibility and survival" globalvoices.org/2025/12/04/q... Kudos to the author for putting this piece together.

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. Report: Assessing High-risk Artificial Intelligence: Fundamental Rights Risks fra.europa.eu/en/publicati...

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social has details on the forthcoming cyber strategy from Trump admin: Five pages long, six key pillars, should be released some time in January: cyberscoop.com/trump-nation...

On the tragic effects of collective punishment. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

A top Pentagon officer whose abrupt retirement came as a shock to his colleagues was reportedly forced out after repeated clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

For those who don't get it, what Karp is saying here is "I can help you justifying the unjustifiable through data" gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

incredible writing

I stand corrected. Palantir sees civilian victims, and they count them as a plus in their budget apparently bsky.app/profile/gizm...

1/ Today we release a new report exposing previously undisclosed entities connected to the wider #Intellexa ecosystem as well as newly identified activity clusters in Iraq and indications of activity in Pakistan: www.recordedfuture.com/research/int...

Brutalist buildings are eerily beautiful until you imagine yourself living or working in them for 15 years

Great work showing yet more mercenary spyware abuses, this time in Iraq and Pakistan involving shady Intellexa and its Predator spyware 👇

A new @cdteu.org report looks into export licensing systems in 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱 & finds that existing frameworks are not ⚠️fully equipped to address challenges related to #spyware trade, incl. current market dynamics (e.g. complex corporate structures) that prevent oversight & control. cdt.org/wp-content/u...

🚨Intellexa Leaks:"Among the most startling findings is evidence that—at the time of the leaked training videos—Intellexa retained the capability to remotely access Predator customer systems, even those physically located on the premises of its govt customers." securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

⚠️ New victims of Predator #spyware identified, with malicious TikTok links revealing new targets, and evidence showing 🇪🇬Egypt & 🇸🇦Saudi clients still active. ➡️ Ad-based infections confirmed. ➡️ Leaked files & investigation expose post-sanctions Intellexa operations. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Did @alixdunn.com and "Computer Says Maybe" get my top spot? Of course they did: Massive fan here! www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

NEW REPORT: War propaganda 2.0 is evolving. Targeted digital ads now influence every moment during conflict, often normalizing violence and justifying abuses. Our new report reveals how online ads fuel these harms and why this demands urgent attention. 🧵▶️

if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)

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No way. @opinion.bloomberg.com made real the "Let them eat compute" joke

What Palantir doesn't (want to) see, are the civilian victims. The "whitewashing" in this fluff piece can't hide a videogame-inspired idea of a killchain. "Optimizing the killchain" without embedding safeguards for civilians exposes the company (and its investors) to participate in atrocities

Op-ed by Ralf Südhoff of @chaberlin.org: When humanitarian aid is degraded to interest-driven foreign policy: www.chaberlin.org/en/news/op-e... #Germany #HumanitarianAid #ForeignOffice @aa-stabilisiert.bsky.social

🚨NEW🚨 At the southern border, officers use Cellebrite forensic devices to access iPhones of immigration crime suspects. Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead. A CBP playbook on border surveillance. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

India demands installation of government app on all smartphones “The ministry-developed app, called Sanchar Saathi, will have access to the phone’s call log, memory and camera, according to the app’s privacy statement.”

The bill is a bid at further deterring cyberattacks, a sentiment with growing focus on the Hill and in the Trump administration. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/legislation-...

Bye bye "self driving cars will be safer" argument, hello "self driving cars aren't worse than randomly distracted humans, actually" argument

I think one of the most helpful ways to think about AI systems comes from Jasmina Tacheva and Srividya Ramasubramanian's article, "AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order" and this figure. Open article is at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.