Amnesty International has filed an amicus curiae brief to the Bangkok Civil Court on the applicable international and regional human rights law and standards on the right to privacy, the right to an effective remedy, and human rights due diligence, in relation to the case Jatupat Boonpattararaksa...

In July 2024, Amnesty Tech and Amnesty Netherlands hosted an event to explore the intersection of tech, gender, and inequality in Amsterdam.   The “Exploring Intersectionality” event brought together more than 80 activists, practitioners and researchers from different organisations...

Amnesty International’s Security Lab has launched new features on its website, adding to the existing range of tools, resources and research to support human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other civil society members against digital attacks, including spyware. “Targeted...

Governments and non-state actors regularly use digital attacks to surveil, harass and intimidate human rights defenders (HRDs), activists, journalists, and other civil society members. Digital attacks can be varied in nature, ranging from malicious software attacks such as spyware, social...

Women and LGBTI activists in Thailand are being subjected to an online onslaught of abusive speech laced with misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic language, sexualized content and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV), Amnesty International said in a new report...

The CBP One mobile application is the sole means of seeking asylum in the United States since the Asylum Ban (Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Final Rule) introduced by the Biden Administration on 11 May 2023. Under the Asylum Ban, individuals are required to use the CBP One application to schedule...

An expansive range of highly invasive spyware and surveillance products are being imported and deployed in Indonesia, Amnesty International’s Security Lab said today as it released a new briefing in collaboration with media partners – Haaretz, Inside Story, Tempo, WAV research collective and...

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What are the Apple threat notifications and how you can protect myself

Recent research by Security Lab partner organisations, Access Now, Citizen Lab and Reporters Without Borders has demonstrated the continued use of the highly invasive spyware Pegasus.  Between a hack and a hard place: how Pegasus spyware crushes civic space in Jordan  A new investigation by...

Amnesty International’s Security Lab is pleased to announce that it is part of the inaugural cohort of groups to be supported by the Spyware Accountability Initiative (SAI), whose mission is to grow a global field of civil society organizations who are advancing threat research, advocacy and...

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...