EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights: Seemingly most critically, the [Russian] government told the ECHR that any intrusion on private ...

Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down

Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down. This was QuadDream: Key Findings Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, ...

NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used against Thailand Pro-Democracy Activists and Leaders

Yet another basic human rights violation, courtesy of NSO Group: Citizen Lab has the details: Key Findings We discovered an extensive espionage campaign targeting Thai pro-democracy protesters, and activists calling for reforms ...
UK Human Rights Group Sues Police over Facial Recognition Software Use

UK Human Rights Group Sues Police over Facial Recognition Software Use

Earlier this month, San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology in police investigations, and now the UK is looking into the matter as a human rights group sues local police ...
UK’s interception regime violates human rights, European court rules

UK’s interception regime violates human rights, European court rules

British intelligence agency GCHQ was found guilty of violating the European Convention on Human Rights, the European court of human rights in Strasbourg said after analyzing the methods used to collect user ...