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Last year, @amnesty revealed technical evidence of spyware firms like Intellexa developing tools for zero-click infection through online ads.
We warned of a dangerous new threat to civil society. Now @citizenlab has caught devices at Al Jazeera being hacked via malicious ads. 🧵
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As the demand for generative AI has snowballed, the scale of the development of these technologies has spun out of control.
Complex supply chains are required to power these systems, presenting us with a trail of human rights risks at every step of their production.
These design choices must be challenged.
They are not inevitable.
Amnesty Tech retweeted
1/ NEW REPORT: Former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on the EU committee investigating Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Full report: citizenlab.ca/research/membe…
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Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.
Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.
We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.
Read the report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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Excited to see @Google launch Intrusion Logging, the first purpose-built system to enable forensic investigations of advanced attacks on mobile.
@AmnestyTech has worked with @Android as a design partner, during the development of Intrusion Logging and Advanced Protection Mode
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AccessNow confirms that China is likely to be behind Zambia’s decision to cancel RightsCon, the largest human rights gathering. The statement is self-explanatory.
@Amnesty calls on all States that have supported RightsCon in such a difficult moment, all those that believes in the protection of civic space and NGOs to rise to the moment. We need your actions. We need you to support finding an alternative venue and offer all necessary support to participants and to Access Now so that we can get together, work and plan for a better world.
You have an opportunity to do the right thing for the 1000s of civil society actors and the millions of people whose rights they serve and protect.
You have an opportunity to stand up to Chinese trans-national repression and to all trans-national repressions whatever their origin.
rightscon.org/rc26-statement…
Amnesty Tech retweeted
China’s pressure silenced the world’s largest digital rights conference.
#RightsCon2026 was reportedly canceled after the Chinese government pushed Zambia to block discussions on Beijing’s global digital influence and exclude Taiwanese participants. This kind of interference is no surprise, given China’s long‑documented human rights record and its repeated use of transnational repression to silence critics beyond its borders.
Governments must resist this intimidation and defend civic space, online and offline.
wired.com/story/the-chinese-…
Amnesty Tech retweeted
Following our April 29 announcement, we believe it's important to be transparent about the context that led to the decision. We want to explain, where we can, why this was made on such short notice, only days before we were set to host RightsCon.
Read: rightscon.org/rc26-statement…
ALT To our community, We are devastated to be writing to you instead of gathering together as planned. We know we’re not alone. Read our full statement: rightscon.org/rc26-statement
Amnesty Tech retweeted
We are confronting the most challenging moment of our age. Humanity is under attack from transnational anti-rights movements and predatory governments determined to assert their dominance through unlawful wars and brazen economic blackmail.
What marks this moment as fundamentally different is that we’re no longer documenting erosion around the system’s edges. This is a direct assault on the foundations of human rights and the international rules-based order by the most powerful actors for the purpose of control, impunity and profit.
For the sake of humanity, the time to make history is now. #HumanityMustWin
Amnesty Tech retweeted
What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today?
Our report examines 144 countries and paints a picture of States playing with a fire that threatens to scorch the future for generations to come.
Read more: amn.st/6012B6A1yC
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It has been a big week for documentaries exposing the harms of social media algorithms - Molly vs the Machines, Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere, and now Inside the Rage Machine reveals leaked internal documents - pulling back the curtain on how these systems really work.
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We are finally seeing consequences for those involved in the abuse of surveillance technology.
We hope this landmark ruling signals the end of the era of impunity for the surveillance industry.
bit.ly/4aB27VC
Amnesty Tech retweeted
Σχεδόν 4 χρόνια μετά το σκάνδαλο Predatorgate βλέπουμε επιτέλους τις συνέπειες για όσους εμπλέκονται στην κατάχρηση της τεχνολογίας παρακολούθησης.
Παραμένουν τα ερωτήματα σχετικά με τον ρόλο της 🇬🇷 κυβέρνησης η οποία αρνείται συστηματικά ότι αγόρασε ή χρησιμοποίησε το Predator.
Amnesty Tech retweeted
Today EU and Angolan ministers meet in Brussels - an opportunity for both sides to act to curb spyware abuses.
A recent @amnesty investigation underlines the real-world cost of the development, sale and use of spyware technologies.
Amnesty Tech retweeted
No more AI Act loopholes!
We demand that EU co-legislators reject attempts to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act.
Read more in our open letter ⬇️
accessnow.org/press-release/…
Amnesty Tech retweeted
While people in Iran are still reeling from the grief and shock of the unprecedented massacres during protest dispersals, the Iranian authorities are waging a coordinated attack on the rights of people in Iran to life, dignity and fundamental freedoms in a criminal bid to terrorize the population into silence.
Amnesty Tech retweeted
Iranian authorities imposed an internet shutdown on 8 January to conceal their crimes.
Speak out against the mass killings.
Protesters in Iran need global solidarity.
#DigitalBlackoutlran
Amnesty Tech retweeted
With reports of a rising death toll in Iran, @amnesty reiterates its calls for urgent global diplomatic action, warning of the risk of further bloodshed amid the internet blackout providing cover for security forces who commit grave violations.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
Amnesty Tech retweeted
[ON AIR] @peterndoro speaks to Victor Ndede, Head of Programs at Amnesty International Kenya, regarding a new report detailing how Kenyan authorities utilized technology to suppress youth-led protests between 2024 and 2025.
Full interview: tinyurl.com/2ausxh59
#RiseAndShine #Kenya
Amnesty Tech retweeted
See you-next Wednesday-at Ibraaz in London:
--->Technology & Power 002
I will be joined by the incredible Alia Al Ghussain and Matt Mahmoudi of @AmnestyTech for a deepdive on the urgent topics of Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights.
Sign up: ibraaz.org/whats-on/technolo…
