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    Feb 4

    Our full report is live this morning: Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach: The Global Scale and Scope of

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    12 minutes ago

    Been reflecting on this a lot. There were 2 years of intense pressure when my colleagues were imprisoned in Azerbaijan after I got kicked out and I was leading campaigns from here. Even in the UK I wouldn’t have certain meetings near my phone. People thought it was over the top…

    Now confirmed that years of my “paranoia” whilst living in and working on Azerbaijan were completely necessary precautions. Good piece by on the human impact of NSO enabling repressive regimes to surveil their critics - including .
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    4 hours ago

    This refugee child arrived on Lesvos on 2 July. Hours later, the same child was rescued by a Turkish boat. Greek authorities must tell us how a child which had reached safety on Greek soil ended up back at sea. The obvious answer is that they were pushed back illegally.

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  4. 41 minutes ago

    This is why it was so obvious private spyware was a major risk factor for

    This is a big one: the American daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, who is leading the campaign for his release, has been surveilled since January (at least)
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    1 hour ago

    No one plays a higher price than activists do when it comes to the threat of spyware. Here we reveal that Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul was a candidate for spying by an NSO Client before her arrest in 2018

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    17 hours ago

    In March, the House passed a measure I wrote to require a State Department blacklist of companies that provide spy and hackware to dictatorships. In light of this shocking story, the administration should push for tough rules to restrict this trade.

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    2 hours ago

    Woah! Big impact from our investigation: Amazon is shutting down NSO Group infrastructure. Not sure if *all* of it, or just what they deem as relevant. Forensic reports have shown that the Israeli company's spyware uses Amazon Web Services.

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    2 hours ago

    My view on US Coast Guard interdicting & returning Cubans: "Unless people interdicted at sea R taken to a safe harbor & given the opportunity for a full & fair consideration of asylum claims, their forced return breaches the principle of nonrefoulement."

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    24 hours ago

    The charming folks at Israel's NSO Group were asked by a number of mostly authoritarian governments, among them Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to spy on the phones of more than 180 journalists around the world (myself included).

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  10. 2 hours ago

    Minor aside on this article: why are there anonymously quoted Turkish officials if Turkey arranged the journalists' access?

    “Frustrated by more than a year of picking up people they say Greece has illegally pushed out, Turkish officials invited journalists to witness rescues firsthand.”
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    3 hours ago

    ‘If you don’t do anything to stop the sale of this technology, it’s not just going to be 50,000 targets. It’s going to be 50 million targets, and it’s going to happen much more quickly than any of us expect.’

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    3 hours ago

    The reveals the staggering extent to which NSO Group's spyware has been deployed against journalists, activists, and lawyers globally. And this is only what has been uncovered. It's high time the surveillance market is reined in.

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    9 hours ago

    Europeans implying the CHP are a uniquely "fascist and racist" party for making 3 million refugees into a political issue eight years into the crisis should probably ask what their own SocDem parties are doing to help open the borders.

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  14. 4 hours ago

    And even if Israel won't implement export controls on its side, the US should use its system to blacklist NSO & its ilk - a US export control will also affect ability to do business internationally.

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  15. 4 hours ago

    US *allies* selling spyware to authoritarian regimes is a systemic threat to democracy

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  16. Jul 17

    Surprise!

    The first positive case of coronavirus inside the Olympic Village has been confirmed just six days before Opening Ceremony, amid growing fears about the spread of the virus during the Games.
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    Jul 16

    An opinion piece by : Mr. Biden should meet with at the White House to demonstrate to the people of — and the world — that the US is prepared to defend democracy and confront autocrats, and not just in news releases

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  18. Jul 17

    Does not disappoint

    Not sure you all are ready for my controversial hummus take.......
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    Jul 16

    Canada introduces refugee stream for journalists, others who defend human rights

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  20. Jul 16

    And Turkey isn't hiding what it is doing. President Erdogan himself announced Inandi was in Turkish custody after he had been missing for more than a month; the same for Selahaddin Gulen, abducted from Kenya. These are serious crimes.

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  21. Jul 16

    In other words, during the more than a month when there was domestic & international attention asking for information on Inandi's whereabouts, he was almost certainly in Turkish custody, in Turkey. That's an enforced disappearance.

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