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Use This Tool to Check If Your Phone’s Been Hacked by the NSO Group’s Spyware
If you’ve been watching the news this week you may have heard something about the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware firm that’s been accused of helping bad actors hack journalists, politicians, and human rights activists throughout the world.
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Encrusting a Gun With LEGO Does Not Change Hearts and Minds, but It Does Attract Lawyers
We’ve learned the hard way that certain toxic mixtures trigger such foreseeable harm that they should never have made it past the drawing board. Medical advice and Lysol. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Facebook. Cops and surveillance toys. In that vein, today we learn what happens when LEGO bricks merge with Glocks: Lawyers come knocking.
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Amnesty International: Google And Facebook Are A Threat To Human Rights
Amnesty International has compiled a 60-page inventory of cases illustrating how we arrived here in the Google-Facebook surveillance hellscape. It doesn’t tell us much more than we already know, but it pounds and pounds on the message that we’re kneeling before the overlords Mark and Sundar and surrendering our data, even as we read the…
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Amnesty International Says Encryption Is A Basic Human Right
Is encryption a basic human right? Amnesty International believes so, becoming one of the latest to weigh in on the Apple v FBI case. In this world of digital communication, encryption is intrinsically tied to privacy and the right to free speech. Amnesty has speculated that undermining encryption as the FBI requested from Apple could…