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Amnesty International

Global human rights organisation that researches and campaigns against abuses, including surveillance and censorship tools, through units like its Security Lab.

Known aliases

  • Amnesty
  • Amnesty International Argentina
  • Amnesty International Security Lab

Current stories

investConfirmed3 publishers

Washington gives American firms six months to cut off the International Criminal Court

Marco Rubio announced US sanctions on the International Criminal Court itself on Friday, hours after ex-ICC judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel. US companies and individuals doing business with the court have six months to wind it down, Fortune reported, so the court now has a deadline for replacing its American banks and software.

Publishers:fortune.com mezha.net scmp.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 51%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence65
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Android 17 copies forensic logs to Google's servers, where no one can delete them for 12 months

Google's Android 17 Intrusion Logging syncs encrypted security and network logs to its servers and bars anyone from deleting them for a rolling 12 months. The feature is a separate opt-in, so the record exists only for people who enable it before an attack.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence60
leadershipOne report1 publisher

More than 44,000 people use GDPR objections to make NHS England defend its Palantir platform

More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections that oblige NHS England to stop using their records on its Palantir platform or show a compelling reason. Those answers come as ministers weigh whether to use a February 2027 break clause in the £330m contract.

Publishers:theguardian.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Meta blocked Lula's campaign ads a week after approving 87% of Eko's disinformation test ads

Meta disabled President Lula's Facebook page and campaign ad account a week after an Eko Movement test got 87% of its disinformation ads approved. The Workers' Party says Meta gave no reason for a restriction imposed less than 11 days before Brazil's first round.

Publishers:panamericandispatch.org

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence40
securityConfirmed7 publishers

Apple threat notifications led one of twelve Serbians to a forensics lab that confirmed Pegasus infection

SHARE Foundation, Citizen Lab and Amnesty confirmed three infections among at least 14 Serbian targets around the March local elections, and the Android half of the wave was installed by hand during police custody.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 20%
Operator
Operator 66%
Investor
Investor 14%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption30
Hype gap+15
Incentives45
Confidence70
securityOne report1 publisher

Twenty-nine MEPs ask the Commission to slow Serbia's accession over Pegasus and NoviSpy findings

A letter signed Friday turns device forensics on Serbian student activists into an enlargement demand, though the signatory who spoke to CyberScoop says spyware will not be the deciding factor if Brussels moves.

Publishers:cyberscoop.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives68
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

A Jetson module in the debris makes autonomy accountability a bill-of-materials problem

Reporting attributes three civilian deaths in Zaporizhzhia to a drone that chose its own target, and the evidence trail ends at a consumer compute module the vendor says it cannot track after sale.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption34
Hype gap+24
Incentives66
Confidence41
buildOne report1 publisher

Amnesty's Argentina numbers price a national surveillance stack at about $600,000 a year

Amnesty says Argentina bought social-media monitoring, facial recognition and drones for at least $1.2 million across 2024 and 2025. The invoice is small because the expensive work sits elsewhere.

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption28
Hype gap+22
Incentives68
Confidence41
securityOne report1 publisher

Source-code match ties a shipping Chinese appliance to the Great Firewall

Academics rebuilt Geedge Networks' Tiangou Secure Gateway firmware from a 100,000-file leak and matched its filtering to China's censorship system. The same box has been exported.

Publishers:news.risky.biz

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption68
Hype gap+12
Incentives32
Confidence58