Spread the Word are fundraising to run accessible reading and writing activities for Lewisham’s diverse communities, and career development and networking sessions for local writers. Can you help? From 2-9 December all donations will be doubled! bit.ly/boroughoflit...

Europe's role in the global spyware crisis must no longer be ignored. Not only is the EU failing to put out the fire, they're fanning the flames. www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/e...

Join us? 💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social 💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech 💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social &Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social

New @amnesty.org investigation exposing mass surveillance & censorship expansion in Pakistan via foreign firms and public money. #BreakTheFirewall www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Becka White is a great working-class writer and human rights campaigner from south-east London. She's written for the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement – her piece Why Don’t Children’s Book Characters Live in Flats?, published in the latter...

🏠 There are millions of leasehold homes in England and Wales, whose 'owners' are subject to spiraling and opaque ground rents, service charges and - in my case - repairs costing tens of thousands of pounds. It's an absolute scandal. My story is just one of many👇 thebeemagazine.com/im-a-leaseho...

It shouldn't be so hard to find UK children's books that show people living in flats, or in homes with no outdoor space. I shared some of my recommendations with @tesmagazine.bsky.social (and working-class writer extraordinaire @kitdewaal.com shared it here🤩💛!)

This has made me think of the time my small children met some children from (then) Swaziland on holidays and they asked my boys breathlessly if they’d ever been to a park, because while growing up on a thousands-of-hectares farm they’d read about going to city parks in so many books.

In the move to diversify bookshelves, schools shouldn’t forget about representing different types of homes, writes @beckacita.bsky.social, as she shares her list of recommendations for books set in flats for @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Amnesty's 2025 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, highlights how tech has played a key role in governments using repressive tactics to attack human rights and silence critics...🧵

Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse” With comment from my colleague @beckacita.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

📢 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/...

Small 🇮🇹Italian cyber intelligence firm Negg recently won a contract to provide its services to the office of PM Giorgia Meloni "after #Paragon was exposed," according to Intelligence Online sources. "The firm is developing a 1-click spyware called VBiss." www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance...

📢NEW: The alarming discovery that Paragon’s Graphite spyware has been used against activists and journalists in Italy underscores Europe's worsening digital surveillance crisis, fuelled by a laissez-faire approach to regulation of the industry. via @donncha.is www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The Paris AI Summit showed that policy makers are ignoring how AI is harming people everyday, writes @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social thewire.in/tech/paris-s...

🔔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...

"Online spaces are very important. It’s the easiest way to reach a lot of people and share information. The challenge is...we could face endless harassment and even death threats like I did." Noon, a Muslim Thai LGBTI activist, shares her experience of online violence. #MakeItSafeOnline

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 👇

⚡Applications for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensics Fellowship are open. If you're an HRD, journalist or technologist working for a CSO, and you want to expand your digital forensics knowledge with Amnesty's Security Lab team, please consider applying. careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

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 👇

🚨 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/...

#16DaysOfActivism At Amnesty we're actively campaigning for an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online violence, everywhere. Check out the work we’ve been doing this year with women, girls and LGBTI activists around the world 🧵 www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...

Amnesty's new report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

If you're part of civil society and received an Apple notification. The Amnesty Security Lab would be happy to test your phone! The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174 The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/

Disappointing news from Thailand. Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Online threats can and do translate into offline harms against transgender people. Thoughts from my friend and Amnesty colleague on tech-facilitated gender-based violence, to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

If you're interested in #spyware, this is a great starting point. I'll keep updating the list as more people join this platform! go.bsky.app/ECCGbqE

Our new Amnesty International’a investigation exposes how #Denmark welfare authority’s use of fraud control algorithms and traditional surveillance methods to identify social benefits fraud, is enabling and expanding digitized mass surveillance. Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...