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New @citizenlab report uncovers two separate China-based cyber espionage campaigns targeting journalists, human rights defenders, exiled ethnic and religious groups and many others.
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- This is what the world looks like under digitized plutocracy Narcissistic billionaires make arbitrary decisions on a whim, treating millions of human lives frivolously and then pronounce their rulings on social media in the manner of a feudal lord
- BREAKING: Apple Inc. has just announced that it is filing a major lawsuit in the U.S. Courts against Israel-based mercenary spyware firm NSO Group “to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware.” apple.com/newsroom/2021/…
- People often ask me what most worries me about the future of the internet... Here's a big one!!
- It appears that some Spanish MEPs are trying to block the European Parliament spyware committee from a fact-finding trip to Madrid ...among them: Juan Ignacio Zoido Alvarez, who served as the Spanish *interior minister* from 2016-2018 🤔
- After careful deliberation of my own and in consultation with my team @citizenlab, we have decided that we cannot collaborate with the @UTLaw because of the @IHRP_UofT appointment decision, and as long as the @CAUT_ACPPU #UofTcensure is in effect. 1/Valentina Azarova was offered the job of director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto. Then a major donor to the law school expressed concerns about her work on the Israeli occupation, and her offer was rescinded. nyer.cm/w5emTLM
- Our #CatalanGate report has triggered a major controversy in 🇪🇸 re: spyware & poor oversight over intel agencies, as well as misinformation about @citizenlab itself I published a response to Q's we received from some MEPs, to help clarify our mission 👇 deibert.citizenlab.ca/wp-content/upl…
- Our new @citizenlab report out now: "Stopping the Press: @nytimes Journalist @NYTBen Targeted by Saudi-linked Pegasus Spyware Operator".
- BREAKING: Last fall, @citizenlab obtained a zero click, zero day Pegasus exploit from a Saudi activists' hacked device, who chose to remain anonymous. Now she has come forward: Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul reuters.com/technology/how… @Bing_Chris @joel_schectman
- Apple caves to China. Cryptographic keys to iCloud data to be stored in China, accessible to authorities.
- Govts are slow to regulate global spyware industry b/c it's in their interest to keep it that way. Meanwhile, litigation may bring accountability as liabilities for companies like NSO pile up French prosecutor opens probe after Pegasus spyware complaint
- NEW: @Apple announces #LockdownMode, a major change to iPhone security that promises to help high risk users + other actions to hold the mercenary spyware industry to account nr.apple.com/d2I3Q1s4s0 My thread w context & details 👇
