"The Iranian authorities have once again deliberately blocked internet access inside Iran to hide the true extent of the grave human rights violations and crimes under international law they are carrying out to crush the largest nationwide protests since [..] 2022."

#Venezuela: Nach der US-Militärintervention wird auch unter der neuen Regierung weiter massiv gegen Journalist*innen vorgegangen. 14 wurden vorübergehend festgenommen. Rund 200 ausländische Journalist*innen warten darauf, einreisen zu können. [1/2] www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/artikel/pres...

"People in Iran daring to express their anger at decades of repression and demand fundamental change are once again being met with a deadly pattern of security forces unlawfully firing at, chasing, arresting and beating protesters"

The Department of Justice has just published a draft bill on police powers, which will rewrite Irish law on digital searches. This should be on the radar of tech firms as well as criminal lawyers. Quick preliminary blog post here: www.tjmcintyre.com/2026/01/gard...

Internet monitoring firms and experts say Iran’s internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities.

Starting around 16:30 UTC (20:00 local time), traffic in #Iran began to drop rapidly, falling nearly 90% in the following 30 minutes. Declines were seen across major network providers. Follow the latest status at radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?d...

As I'll soon be moving on from Silent Push, I'm looking for work. Full-time, part-time, permanent or contract. Most recently, I've been researching APT groups' infrastructure, but I've done a lot of different things in my million years in cyber. A portfolio of sorts: www.lapsedordinary.net

Real-time bidding, which powers nearly every ad you see online, might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Access Now helpline plays such a crucial but often invisible role in the ecosystem that supports journalists and activists who are targeted by spyware (and other kinds of online bad stuff) and I'm very glad to see them profiled.

🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation? Well now you have! #AI #Disinformation open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

“A single judge is doing what an entire Supreme Court did not do.” The Single-Member Misdemeanour Court of Athens appears determined to shed light on all aspects of the 🇬🇷 wiretappings case, writes @etriantafillou.bsky.social. insidestory.gr/article/ypok...

Karim El-Gawhary gilt als einer der profiliertesten Nahostexperten des ORF. Nun soll sein Vertrag auslaufen. Seine Berichterstattung zum Gaza-Krieg polarisiert – und passt offenbar nicht mehr ins herrschende Klima.

Recent social media posts about Muslims by the ÖVP. The ÖVP is a governing "centre-right" party in Austria, unlike the far-right FPÖ. Together, it's likely those two parties will form the next government. It really makes you ask, at what point will the calls for pogroms be openly made?

Some reflections on the CJEU ruling on the Danish "Ghettolaw". (C-417/23) I criticise the Court's reluctance to classify a law allowing preferential ending of tenancies for those descending from "non-Western" migrants as related to ethnic and racial origin. www.courthousenews.com/denmarks-bid...

Mena-Watch gewinnt - der Vertrag von Karim El-Gawhary @gawhary.bsky.social wird vom ORF nicht verlängert. Empathie mit Palästinensern nach wie vor streng verboten. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Liam Herrick: Why has Ireland abruptly decided the European Convention on Human Rights goes too far?

An analysis of a recent 0-click exploit targeting Samsung devices: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-lo...

Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Targeting Civilians: Murder, Hostage-Taking and Other Violations by Palestinian Armed Groups in Israel and Gaza Full report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/0282/2025/en/

I've been browsing various Eurovision content creators on YouTube and elsewhere. I've yet to see any of them with a good word to say about the decision not to ban Israel. Most of them thought the contest was damaged irreparably.

Lord https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/12/06/senior-gardai-query-weak-response-from-defence-forces-to-rogue-drones-during-zelenskiy-visit/

New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...

Ich habe diesen offenen Brief zur Verteidigung meiner ARD-Kollegin Sophie von der Tann mit unterzeichnet, auch weil ich weiß, wie sich solche Diffamierungs-Kampagnen gegen Journalistinnen und Journalisten rund um die Gaza-Berichterstattung anfühlen. media.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/production/5...

When governments purchased Intellexa's Predator spyware, did they know that Intellexa staff would be remotely logging in to the active infection operations dashboard with... TeamViewer?

🚨 - 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. 🧵👇

Charleton calling other judges "activist" while pulling stunts like this is a bit rich

If you're campaigning to make some sort of change in the world and someone is very insistent that an action "wouldn't make any difference anyways" then it should go DING DING DING and lights should flash in your head because history shows that you should always do that thing

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

How absurd is RTÉ's interpretation of law, that even in a factual documentary 14 years later they have to censor what happened in the 2011 Frontline Presidential Debate?

I've never been prouder of @2600.com and speaking at @hope.net than now. 2600 has apparently been told HOPE can't return to St. John's University - allegedly because some attendees last year were ""too anti-police."" Censorship won't stop the signal - especially not 2600 Hz

New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Really good (and fair) long read on the BBC, Gaza, and government influence. https://www.equator.org/articles/inside-the-bbc-s-gaza-fiasco

🚨Today, @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @amnesty.org are publishing the 2,700 docs we’ve forced the NYPD to release on their use of facial recognition against New Yorkers🚨 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this… @jumaane.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

istg if I meet one more person who says to me that "society is more polarised" I'm gonna start asking for examples of where they think the other end of that pole has moved exactly. please explain what is the central midpoint from not-wanting-fascism

Timur Husein, Antisemitismusbeauftragter bei der CDU Berlin. Nie wieder ist jetzt! Aber morgen erst wieder

"It's a non-political music competition between broadcasters, not countries" - EBU Pictured: Director General of Austrian broadcaster ORF meeting the President of Israel in Jerusalem, with the "goal of securing support for Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest".

Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.

Help my colleagues at Dangerzone test their important app: dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11... Dangerzone is @freedom.press' open-source tool that sanitizes attachments and removes any potential malware. Just download, install and report any errors. You’ll have good karma for the rest of the week. 😇

Is it cope to think that the pendulum that's at peak slop genAI now will eventually swing us back towards a society that values "meaning" - genuine expertise, high reputation news sources, unique works of art, the joy of human interaction?

Despite the click-bait headline my contribution has been accurately reported in this piece by @eithnedodd.bsky.social unfortunately on the industry side the wool has been pulled over her eyes by the usual self-serving rhetoric By way of followup a short 🧵

Sektarische Lügen verbreiten, dann das Posting leise löschen, so ist es immer mit diesem Herrn.

How NGOs die This is Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy My latest for @euobserver.com euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c...

A very good Risky.biz podcast this week on Peter Williams, the former Trenchant employee accused of stealing trade secrets (👀). @patrick.risky.biz says Williams is ex-ASD (Australian NSA), which declined to comment to us when we reached out as it was a "matter for law enforcement." risky.biz/RB812/

Not all members of think tanks are assholes, but there sure are a *lot* of assholes who are members of think tanks

How Ireland’s Elites are Coordinating Against Judicial Review https://padraigmcevoy.substack.com/p/how-irelands-elites-are-coordinating

No surprise that #ORF correspondent Nikolaus Wildner is accepting a "journalism prize" from pro-Israel propaganda org Mena-Watch.

Had a good few years there without hearing from David Quinn

Wider trend of privatisation of everything - now expanding to state violence