David Blood @david@4estate.media

RT @amnesty
🔴 BREAKING: “What we are witnessing in Afghanistan is a tragedy that should have been foreseen and averted. It will only be compounded further without swift & decisive action from the international community” - @AgnesCallamard, @amnesty Secretary General.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/afghanistan-international-community-must-act-decisively-to-avert-further-tragedy

RT @AmnestyTech
Pegasus Project: Apple iPhones compromised by NSO spyware

Our forensic analysis has uncovered irrefutable evidence that through iMessage zero-click attacks, NSO’s spyware has successfully infected iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 models.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/pegasus-project-apple-iphones-compromised-by-nso-spyware/

RT @AmnestyTech
Journalists and @amnesty have had access to over 50k phone numbers of people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO.

It includes world leaders, activists and journalists.

Here's how our Security Lab analysed the phones -

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/

RT @Snowden
Stop what you're doing and read this. This leak is going to be the story of the year: (LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus)

RT @AmnestyTech
Journalists and @amnesty have had access to over 50k phone numbers of people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO.

It includes world leaders, activists and journalists.

Here's how our Security Lab analysed the phones -

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/

RT @GemmaFox__
BREAKING:

17 media outlets and @amnesty have had access to over 50k phone numbers believed to be people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO

Included on the list are world leaders, activists and journalists.

More details throughout the week...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus

RT @washingtonpost
Perspective: “I have known hot places. The Northwest heat wave feels apocalyptic.” https://wapo.st/3h45OaE

RT @50ShadesofVan
An unfathomable temperature anomaly: approaching 25°C above normal for B.C. - huge red flag to have anomaly greater than average temperature. An equivalent negative anomaly would see highs near freezing. #BCHeat

RT @guardian
China’s Uyghurs living in a ‘dystopian hellscape’, says Amnesty report https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/10/china-uyghur-xinjiang-dystopian-hellscape-says-amnesty-international-report?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1623337595-1

RT @AgnesCallamard
20 months of @amnesty tireless work into #China treatment of Muslim ethnic minorities of #Xinjiang; 100 pages of detailed evidence of crimes against humanity, massive human rights violations, and a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale.

RT @amnesty
🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION 🚨

Today we launch the most comprehensive investigation to date of the crushing repression faced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in #Xinjiang, #China.

Find out more: http://xinjiang.amnesty.org 📢

RT @amnesty
Hey @NYPDnews we know you have used facial recognition in over 20,000 cases—but you're still refusing to say where, when or why.

So 5500 volunteers from 144 countries mapped 15,280 surveillance cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, & the Bronx. Here's what that exposure looks like👇

RT @samdubberley
📢New York is in danger of becoming a total surveillance city. Thanks to our Decoder volunteers, @amnesty today reveals 15,280 cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx that the NYPD can use with facial recognition software.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/scale-new-york-police-facial-recognition-revealed/ 📢

RT @amnesty
📢 NEW INVESTIGATION 📢

Today @AmnestyTech revealed that the NYPD can track people in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx by running images from 15,280 surveillance cameras into invasive and discriminatory facial recognition software.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/scale-new-york-police-facial-recognition-revealed/

RT @amnestypress
BREAKING: @amnesty wins Webby Award for multimedia tear gas project #Webbys https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/05/amnesty-international-wins-webby-award-for-multimedia-tear-gas-project/