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…
Iraqi Death Squads: Getting Away with Murder
How did armed groups operating under the cover of the Popular Mobilization Forces manage to impose fear through a series of assassinations? Here is a detailed investigation into 2020 assassination…
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…
Privacy violated in Palestine: ISPs leave private data exposed
Internet service providers (ISPs) in Palestine are failing to protect their customers’ privacy. Through a joint study, Privacy Violated: Protection of Customers’ Personal Information by Internet Service Providers in Palestine,…
Iraq is one of top countries in the world – facts on the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances!
Today, on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we the 33 undersigned local, regional, and international organizations, associations, and networks come together to highlight…
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…