🚨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...

Under the guise of “simplification” the EU want to roll back digital rights to appease Big Tech. Joint statement: www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-must...

The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

Inter-American SR on Free Expression calls for a ban on highly-invasive spyware like Pegasus which violates human rights by design. www.oas.org/en/iachr/exp...

“In Pakistan, surveillance is part of the cost of being a journalist” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

New research out today from Amnesty Tech shows how the shadowy trade in surveillance and censorship tech is fueling a human rights crisis in Pakistan: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Big Tech or big technology companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple influence how we access and interact on the internet. Here's why Big Tech companies are a threat to human rights ⬇️

"Breaking up with Big Tech" - is in the world today, thanks to the brilliant @hannahstorey.bsky.social Human rights and anti-competition law need to work together to address the harms that tech monopolies cause: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

New @amnesty.org research uncovers the role of Palantir and Babel in Trump's mass deportations and targeting pro-Palestine protest www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The report is available in Danish, Arabic, and English. Developing an easy-to-read version of the report is a first for Amnesty Tech and reflects our continued commitment to finding ways to make our work more accessible. Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

New! If you are curious about how automation in welfare services effects people’s rights in Denmark, check out the easy-to-read version of Amnesty International’s investigation "Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark’s automated welfare state".

I spoke to OkayAfrica about the landmark Kenya lawsuit in which a judge recently rule the court has jurisdiction to hear a case against #Meta for its contribution to violence in #Ethiopia about the avenues this opens up for community accountability Read more here: www.okayafrica.com/kenya-ethiop...

Last week, I was starstruck and positively stoked to sit down w @alixdunn.com and three incredible co-panelists to talk UK politics and broligarchy at the Computer Says Maybe live show in London. The show is now available on CSM's podcast feed – take a listen! www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/ai-c...

📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

Hungary has banned pride events and is allowing authorities to use face recognition to find the people who attend. THIS is exactly the future we’ve been warning about as a movement to ban government use of face recognition has been working tireless to ban it at the local and state level.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and lawful permanent resident, is another attack on human rights by the Trump administration. Freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are human rights, not grounds for deportation.

Last week Amnesty joined the case of Brejza v. Poland at the ECHR. Spyware like Pegasus violates human rights by design - it's time for a ban. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔 Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware! Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Il est urgent d'adopter une approche critique du technosolutionnisme de la France et de poser des limites claires à l'utilisation d'outils qui, au nom de la sécurité, menacent nos droits fondamentaux. Pour agir ✍️👇 www.amnesty.fr/petitions/la...

Des experts de l’ONU estiment non nécessaire et non proportionnée la vidéosurveillance algorithmique déployée pendant les JO 2024. #VSA Des critères pourtant imposés par le droit international pour toute intrusion dans le droit à la vie privée. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

**Major** update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

New @amnestyuk.bsky.social report on a phenomenon at the core of racist policing in many countries. Imposing a “crime label” based on racist data keeps feeding the cycle of harm. Read about the stories of people having their life impacted because of the use of racist data by the police.

Here is @amnesty.org 's message to European leaders: Stop punishing Palestinian solidarity, start punishing those who commit genocide! Read here @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social latest OpEd for the The Independent independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-...

Policy announcements by Meta pose a grave threat to vulnerable communities globally & increase the risk of contributing to mass violence & gross human rights abuses just like in Myanmar in 2017. Read more in @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

"The consensus among cybersecurity experts could not be clearer: There is no way to provide government access to end-to-end encrypted data without breaking end-to-end encryption, thus putting every user’s security and privacy at risk." Sign our petition NOW ⬇️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit. She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇

German authorities must stop their crackdown on speech and protests and the discriminatory restriction of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. #ProtectTheProtest ✊

In the lead up to next week’s Paris AI Summit, @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social and I call on government leaders and tech executives to confront how AI and austerity, often coded as ‘government efficiency’ are driving inequality and entrenching corporate power. www.techpolicy.press/ai-as-double...

We are now living in a world that feels increasingly terrifying. The omnipresence of predictive algorithms, coupled with rising global backlash against civil liberties risks giving a carte blanche to tech companies, to operate without rules or guidelines. Read more 👇

It’s a shame that Google has chosen to reverse its ban on AI for weapons and surveillance, after years of recognizing that their AI programme should not be used in ways that could contribute to human rights violations. Read more 👇

This week's #InternationalDayOfEducation is a perfect opportunity for the UK to re-commit to global leadership on education by supporting the proposed new treaty on a right to free education, from pre-primary through secondary: www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/opin... #ChildRights

If you’re pro free speech for some at the cost of free speech for others, you’re not pro free speech. You’re pro some.

Dang. Rest in peace Man of Steal www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/mlb/oakland-...

MEPs "appalled" over surveillance attacks against journalists and HRDs in Serbia documented in new @amnesty.org report: n1info.rs/english/news...

New @amnesty report reveals how Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign. Read the report 👇

Tech Guide: Detecting NoviSpy spyware with AndroidQF and the Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT). securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

New @amnesty.org research today! Serbian authorities using spyware and Cellebrite to target activists and journalists - first documented case of Cellebrite being used to allow spyware infection. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...

🇵🇱 Poland's upcoming EU Presidency is a chance to combat spyware misuse! CDT Europe & 13 orgs urge Poland to prioritise safeguarding fundamental rights, democracy, and security. Let's push for EU-wide reforms. #StopSpyware

Funny story Know who else Meta gave $1 Million to? Not a group of Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, who wanted it to build a school b/c they didn't have one, after FB helped enable ethnic cleansing against them at home Nope. FB called it "philanthropic activities" and said we don't do that

NSO Group would like to wish you a happy 76th birthday of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Maybe some day NSO Group will come clean on their own human rights violations! It's the human rights organisations that are wrong about this of course ;-)

Sometimes Big Tech's euphemisms just give the game away. If it's an agreement, don't both sides get to alter it?

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

I think it’s safe to say that I speak on behalf of all Giants fans when I say “please, please, give this man a contract LA”

“Necessary but not sufficient”, as we lawyers like to say. Wonder why it’s taking so long? There’s a clue at the end…

My co-worker Hajira Maryam and I wrote an op-ed on the requirement for businesses to register VPNs now in Pakistan www.thenews.com.pk/print/125643...

Not to be missed: 3 wichtige Recherchen allein in diesem November zu diskriminierenden #Algorithmen #KI in den Sozialsystemen von EU-Staaten: * Niederlande: www.amnesty.nl/content/uplo... * Dänemark: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... * Schweden: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...