Global Encryption Day Statement
148 organizations and businesses have signed our statement of support (list below) Strong encryption is a critical technology that helps keep people, their information, and communications private and secure. It…
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
“Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Today at 15:51 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled “Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL” because we were worried…
Coalition Letter to the 48th U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on Pegasus
To Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council Re: Request for Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council to urgently denounce and mandate independent investigations into the situation of…
The Oversight Board’s decision on Palestine is a step in the right direction, now Facebook needs to step up
We, the undersigned organizations, welcome the recent decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on Facebook’s unjustified removal of news content related to the recent Israeli aggression on Palestine under its Community…
a Plane Over Apple’s Headquarters: “DON’T SCAN OUR PHONES”
For the last month, civil liberties and human rights organizations, researchers, and customers have demanded that Apple cancel its plan to install photo-scanning software onto devices. This software poses an…
Facebook has exempted nearly 6 million of its most high-profile users from facing consequences for breaking platform rules
Facebook has exempted nearly 6 million of its most high-profile users from facing consequences for breaking platform rules through a systematic and secret tiering system that an internal review described…
“Do you own an Apple product? Update it today,” he said.
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as…
From Pearl to Pegasus | Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
By Bill Marczak, Ali Abdulemam1, Noura Al-Jizawi, Siena Anstis, Kristin Berdan, John Scott-Railton, and Ron Deibert Summary & Key Findings We identified nine Bahraini activists whose iPhones were successfully hacked…
The Launch of the Arab Alliance for Digital Rights
The Arab Alliance for Digital Rights (AADR) sets in motion its work to promote and defend the digital rights and freedoms of internet users across the Arabic-speaking countries. The Alliance…
MENA Surveillance Coalition demands an end to the sale of surveillance technology to the region’s autocratic governments
26-July-2021 We, the undersigned human rights organizations, call for an immediate halt to the use, sale and transfer of surveillance technology to autocratic oppressive governments across the Middle East and…