Nikole Yanez is a computer scientist by training, and a human rights defender from Honduras. She is passionate about feminism, the impact of the internet and protecting activists. She was first drawn to human rights through her work as a reporter with a local community radio station. After surviving the coup d’état in Honduras in…
In the summer of 2022, I watched a recording of Claudio Guarnieri, former Head of the Amnesty Tech Security Lab, presenting about Security Without Borders at the 2016 Chaos Communication Congress. After following the investigations of the Pegasus Project and other projects centring on spyware being used on journalists and human rights defenders, his call to…
It has been both a pleasure and a challenge for us at the Security Lab to translate practical experience and learning on digital forensics into a succinct curriculum. As the spyware crisis becomes more acute, training human rights defenders to do digital forensics is critically important for the human rights movement worldwide. As part of…
This blog post was written as part of the Digital Forensics Fellowship by one of the 2022-2023 Fellows. About me: My name is Paul Aguilar, I was born in Mexico, I’m a Computer Engineer by profession, and passionate about technology and free culture by choice. I am currently Coordinator of Digital Security at an organisation…
This blog post was written as part of the Digital Forensics Fellowship by one of the 2022-2023 Fellows. The forensic analysis of smartphones was one of the critical pieces of evidence in The Pegasus Project. Traces left by Pegasus spyware on the phones infected with it allowed the survivors of this intrusive surveillance to become…
Amnesty Tech are thrilled to announce the launch of the Digital Forensics Fellowship, led by our Security Lab. This innovative Fellowship is an opportunity for human rights defenders working at the nexus of human rights and technology to expand their learning on digital forensics and to work alongside the Security Lab to conduct unique research projects.…