BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group.
Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker.
Very consequential for victims to see this.
Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/
Posts by David Aragort
I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...
#ContraLaCensura | Este #12Mar, en el Día Mundial contra la Censura en Internet, denunciamos que las condiciones en Venezuela atentan contra el derecho de acceso pleno y libre a la red.
Te contamos por qué:
vesinfiltro.org/noticias/202...
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Despite the challenging times faced by our community, I'm thrilled to attend #RightsCon2025 with OpenArchive. I'm eager to meet with old and new friends, explore collaborative opportunities, and support one another in these difficult moments
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✏“Cross-border advocacy will be critical in pushing for more transparency around state surveillance in Venezuela and other countries that employ these tactics against their citizens.” More from @aragort.com:
The logo of Espacio Público a Venezuelan NGO defending Freedom of Speech appears at the top of the image Carlos Correa’s portrait appears on the background of a text in Spanish that reads: Carlos Correa (Director of NGO Espacio Público) The whereabouts of our Executive Director are unknown since January 7, 2024 at 5pm. According to witnesses, he was intercepted in the center of Caracas (Venezuela) by presumed public servants wearing hoods. #DóndeEstáCarlosCorrea #WhereIsCarlosCorrea #LiberenACarlosCorrea #FreeCarlosCorrea www.espaciopublico.ong
🇻🇪 Carlos Correa, Executive Director of NGO Espacio Público, has been missing since hooded (presumed) public officers intercepted him in Caracas on Jan 7.
As Nicolás Maduro takes over a new term, Venezuelan activists warn about increased retaliation.
#LiberenACarlosCorrea
#DóndeEstáCarlosCorrea
The Venezuelan digital rights and Internet policy community urges the international community to condemn the abuse of technological tools to increase political control and persecute dissent by the ruling party in Venezuela.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri.
These warrants should push the international community to address atrocities and secure justice for all victims in Palestine and Israel.
ECH encrypts the Server Name Indication (SNI) field in HTTPS requests, making it harder for internet service providers to see which sites users are visiting and enforce censorship.
blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-e...
🇷🇺 Russia's internet watchdog has blocked thousands of websites using Cloudflare's Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) feature.
This move aims to prevent users from bypassing government-imposed domain-based blockings.
therecord.media/russia-block...
RightsCon session in Spanish happening on Wednesday, June 7, at 12:45 PM (CST).
Looking for sessions in Spanish at RightsCon? Join us to talk about the internet in Cuba and how people are using it to fight for democracy. 🇨🇺
⚠️ I was featured in the latest BBC Trending podcast "Trolled", which discussed the case of AI-generated disinformative content on YouTube which was deceptively disseminated by VTV state TV channel as "real news", and about 🇻🇪 digital troops on Twitter:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5d92
Last night, while protests were taking place in #Cuba 🇨🇺 there was an Internet shutdown in the country.
The Cuban regime does this to stop the dissemination of photos and videos of the demonstrations and repression.
🔗 You can learn more about it here: https://www.giswatch.org/en/country-report/cuba