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New Delhi: An investigation by Amnesty International, in partnership with The Washington Post, has suggested the Indian government has repeatedly used the Pegasus spyware to target prominent journalists in India. In response, the government has described the report as “half facts, fully embellished”.The report published Thursday said that the organisations had “unearthed shocking new details about the continued use of NSO Group’s highly invasive spyware Pegasus to target prominent journalists in India, including one who…

India's government has recently targeted high-profile journalists with Pegasus spyware, Amnesty International and The Washington Post said in a joint investigation published Thursday.Created by Israeli firm NSO Group and sold to governments around the world, Pegasus software can be used to access a phone's messages and emails, peruse photos, eavesdrop on calls, track locations, and even film the owner with the camera. Amnesty said journalists Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire and Anand Mangnale of The Organized Crime and…

The Israeli military is increasingly deploying experimental new facial recognition software to monitor Palestinians and “supercharge segregation” in the West Bank, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday. Amnesty found that Israeli authorities are using a little-known advanced surveillance tool called “Red Wolf” to monitor and restrict Palestinian residents’ movements across key checkpoints in the region. Palestinians on the ground described the state’s vast and growing web of facial…

Leading global human rights organization Amnesty International is defending its choice to use an AI image generator to depict protests and police brutality in Colombia. Amnesty told Gizmodo it used an AI generator to depict human rights abuses so as to preserve the anonymity of vulnerable protestors. Experts fear, however, that the use of the tech could undermine the credibility of advocacy groups already besieged by authoritarian governments that cast doubt on the authenticity of real footage.Warning! Microsoft Wants…

Amnesty International Australia was hacked in December with attackers accessing information on donors, in a breach the charity waited on for four months before disclosing.In a statement posted to its website on Friday afternoon, five days after this masthead put in questions, Amnesty said it had detected the attack on December 3, 2022. The charity said it subsequently secured its IT systems and started an investigation.Amnesty International Australia detected the hack late last year but only disclosed it on Friday.Credit:…

A conspiracy theorist urging Americans to burn voting machines, an anti-Muslim activist posting a photo with a gun, a retired general who called for a coup -- Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated thousands of once-banned accounts. Twitter has turned into what campaigners call a cesspool of misinformation, hate-filled conspiracies and racial slurs amid what appears to be reduced content moderation in recent weeks following mass layoffs and an exodus of key staff focused on user safety. Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech…

Elon Musk has announced a “general amnesty” for suspended Twitter accounts. The new Twitter CEO says suspended accounts that “have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam” will get a new life on the platform starting next week. This comes shortly after he reversed the permanent ban on former US president Donald Trump’s Twitter account.Twitter will soon welcome more suspended accountsThis “general amnesty” for suspended accounts is likely part of Musk’s idea of content moderation on Twitter. He plans to form a new…

Elon Musk said on Thursday that Twitter will provide a "general amnesty" to suspended accounts starting next week after running a poll on whether to do so for users who had not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam. In a poll Musk posted on Twitter on Wednesday, 72.4 percent of the more than 3.16 million users who took part voted in favour of bringing back those who had been suspended by the social media platform."The people have spoken," Musk, who acquired Twitter last month, tweeted on Thursday. "Amnesty begins…

Elon Musk said Thursday Twitter will grant “a general amnesty” to accounts that had been suspended from the platform beginning next week. The CEO posted a poll the day earlier over whether the platform should restore affected accounts. The news comes within a week of Musk also ending former president Donald Trump’s ban from the platform after running a similar poll. Trump was banned after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but said he doesn’t intend to return to the platform. Musk’s…

Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk says a "general amnesty" for banned accounts for those who "have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam." He on whether Twitter should offer the amnesty, seemingly overlooking the fact that such polls can be easily gamed by bots. Over 72 percent of the 3.2 million votes approved of Musk's amnesty proposal.  Musk last weekend after a similar poll. Trump has yet to tweet after getting his account back, though he has continued to post on his own app, Truth Social. Late last week,…