News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
A Tel Aviv District Court today rejected an attempt, supported by Amnesty International, which sought to force Israel’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) to revoke the security export license of spyware company NSO Group. Danna Ingleton, acting Co-Director of Amnesty Tech, said: “Today’s disgraceful...
July 12, 2020
News
Middle East and North Africa
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
NSO Group, the Israeli company marketing its technology in the fight against COVID-19, contributed to a sustained campaign by the government of Morocco to spy on Moroccan journalist Omar Radi, a new investigation by Amnesty International reveals. The organization found that Omar Radi’s phone was...
June 22, 2020
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Strategic Litigation
Israel must revoke the export license of NSO Group whose spyware products have been used in malicious attacks on human rights activists around the world, Amnesty International said ahead of the latest court case to embroil the tech firm. On Thursday, a judge at Tel Aviv’s District Court will begin...
January 14, 2020
Research
Morocco and Western Sahara
Technology and Human Rights
Summary In October 2019 Amnesty International published a first report on the use of spyware produced by Israeli company NSO Group against Moroccan human rights defenders Maati Monjib and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui. Through our continued investigation, Amnesty International’s Security Lab...
June 22, 2020
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
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
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
Press Release
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
A new interactive online platform by Forensic Architecture, supported by Amnesty International and the Citizen Lab, maps for the first time the global spread of the notorious spyware Pegasus, made by cyber-surveillance company NSO Group. ‘Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror’...
July 3, 2021
Press Release
Responding to the release of NSO Group’s transparency report, Danna Ingleton, Deputy Director of Amnesty Tech, said: “NSO Group’s latest report – which reads more like a sales brochure – is yet another missed opportunity for the company to be transparent and provide meaningful information...
July 1, 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
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