Research
Europe and Central Asia
EU
The Pegasus Project – a consortium of journalists coordinated by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab – revealed how NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used to hack the devices of activists, journalists, and opposition figures, including...
December 3, 2021
Research
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Business and Human Rights
This document is a joint technical report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and Amnesty International’s Security Lab reviewing Front Line Defenders’ technical research. In October 2021, the human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) Front Line Defenders (FLD) began collecting data on...
November 8, 2021
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Technology and Human Rights
In response to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s decision to place cyber surveillance company NSO Group on its “entity list” for malicious cyber activity, Danna Ingleton, Deputy Director of Amnesty Tech, said: “With this move, the US government has acknowledged what Amnesty and other...
November 3, 2021
Research
Technology and Human Rights
In October 2021, Amnesty International wrote to Alaska Permanent Fund Corps, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, East Riding Pension Fund, and South Yorkshire Pensions Authority noting that they were directly linked to human rights abuse through their investment stake in Novalpina Capital,...
October 21, 2021
Press Release
The vast scale of violations perpetrated through secretive cyber surveillance has exposed a global human rights crisis, Amnesty International warned today, in a new briefing published following the revelations of the Pegasus Project investigation. The briefing, Uncovering the Iceberg: The Digital...
July 23, 2021
News
The vast scale of violations perpetrated through secretive cyber surveillance has exposed a global human rights crisis, Amnesty International warned today, in a new briefing published following the revelations of the Pegasus Project investigation. The briefing, Uncovering the Iceberg: The Digital...
July 23, 2021
Press Release
New evidence uncovered by the Pegasus Project has revealed that the phone numbers of Emirati princesses Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and Haya bint Hussein were listed as potential targets by clients of spyware company NSO Group in the 50,000 numbers...
July 21, 2021
News
New evidence uncovered by the Pegasus Project has revealed that the phone numbers of Emirati princesses Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and Haya bint Hussein were listed as potential targets by clients of spyware company NSO Group in the 50,000 numbers leaked in the Pegasus Project investigation....
July 21, 2021
Press Release
NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal...
July 19, 2021
News
NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal...
July 19, 2021
Research
Technology and Human Rights
A copy of this report is available for download here. Introduction NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements are true. This report...
July 18, 2021
Research
Business and Human Rights
NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements are true. It accompanies the release of the Pegasus Project, a collaborative investigation that...
July 18, 2021