Another day, another disinformation campaign on X/Twitter against our Amnesty Austria colleague, pushed by the usual suspects.
07.03.2026 22:25
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Another day, another disinformation campaign on X/Twitter against our Amnesty Austria colleague, pushed by the usual suspects.
The Chief Constable of the PSNI has said that journalist Vincent Kearney was never treated as a suspect by the force -despite police documentation from 2013 clearly labelling him as one.
thedetail.tv/articles/psn...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.iDYk.Q91DlPE9JfKc&smid=url-share
🇬🇷Greece’s top administrative court has ordered the intelligence service EYP to hand over the file on the surveillance of @nasoskoukakis.bsky.social.
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1297105...
➡️ Today, we’re able to reveal that the Iranian regime secretly uses FindFace, a Russian facial recognition software, which can identify people in public spaces within seconds.
We have obtained videos showing the software in a live-scenario, at metro stations in Teheran. We have contracts, and we have had a look at the code, built by the Russian company Ntechlab.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
„Doch laut Dokumenten, die der taz vorliegen, ermittelt die Polizei gegen den Schuldirektor im Fall nun sogar wegen ‚falscher Verdächtigung’. Weder auf Deutsch, Arabisch oder Englisch lassen sich zudem Belege für seinen imposanten Lebenslauf finden.“
Starke Recherche!
taz.de/Mutmassliche...
Brett Max Kaufman and I wrote this piece about the NSA's "vocabulary of misdirection" a long time ago but maybe someone at Open AI should read it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The BBC website is slightly better, but feels like the rolling TV channel is a shallow version, with a notable editorial bent
Did the BBC News TV channel also fire its entire regional team or is it just me finding the coverage is lacking reporting? Endless "think tank" interviews...
Happy deemed refusal of the request for internal review of the deemed refusal day!
Finally we may get some truth and justice in the #spyware scandal. A Greek court convicted four persons for their role in the abuse of spyware against ao journalists and politicians. Further investigations are needed into the very close ties with the government party. Will @ec.europa.eu wake up now?
"Almost four years since the 'Predatorgate' scandal hit Greece, we are finally seeing consequences for those involved in the abuse of surveillance technology."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/02/greece-spyware-scandal/
The criminal justice system is remarkably nimble when the reputations of Important Americans are involved
But if you're, say, a school trying to remove a fired teacher for trespassing... that'd be a civil matter
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/02/26/palestine-protester-arrested-after-disrupting-google-conference-in-dublin-due-in-court/
Four Intellexa figures found guilty in Greece
Prominent Angolan journalist Teixeira Cândido was targeted by Predator, a highly invasive mobile phone spyware.
This is the first forensic confirmation of its use in Angola, amid a tightening authoritarian environment in the country.
Today EU and Angolan ministers meet in Brussels - an opportunity for both sides to act to curb spyware abuses.
A recent @amnesty.org investigation underlines the real-world cost of the development, sale and use of spyware technologies.
A ruling sheds a small light on opaque intel-gathering on some citizenship seekers. An Garda Síochána “has developed strong links with other security services, particularly those with whom the State shares common threats to national security”, it says.
NEW: The U.S. government is sanctioning Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero and its founder, alleging it acquired stolen hacking tools from U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant.
The U.S. said former Trenchant boss Peter Williams stole and sold these exploits to Operation Zero.
Keep your head down, be grand
The Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought social media surveillance software 'Tangles' from Cobwebs/Penlink and refuses to tell parliament whether they also bought the intrusive Tangles add-on 'Webloc', which relies on the mass collection of personal data from digital advertising and mobile apps.
NEW: Last year, Cellebrite stopped Serbia from using its tools after allegations that local police had abused them to hack into the phone of a journalist.
Now there are similar allegations in Kenya and Jordan, and Cellebrite is taking an entirely different approach.
The UK literally invented immigration raid reality TV shows, and are currently trying to do away with jury trials btw
“Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.”
yes, we are. I tell students and colleagues often that contrary to what they might think, I actually love technology and that is why I’m so angry because I know and can see how it could be and how it most certainly is not.
NEW: Researchers found Intellexa Predator spyware used against prominent journalist in Angola.
The Intellexa customer contacted the journalist on WhatsApp and after a few days of chatting started sending him malicious links, until he clicked one and got infected. Spyware disappeared after reboot.
https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2026/02/journalism-under-attack-predator-spyware-in-angola/
