Amnesty Int’l Calls for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Israeli NSO Group Pegasus Revelations
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2021
- Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information. While the company touts Pegasus as intended for criminals and terrorists, leaked data suggests the tool is widely abused by governments to go after political opponents and dissidents, according to reporting from The Pegasus Project, an international consortium of 17 media organizations. We feature a PBS “Frontline” report on the shocking findings that the Israeli government allowed NSO to continue to do business with Saudi Arabia even after the Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in 2018 in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, and allegedly used Pegasus to surveil Khashoggi’s fiancée. “Contrary to what NSO is claiming, the spyware Pegasus is used to target people absolutely unrelated to criminal activities or terrorism,” says Agnès Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International. She adds that The Pegasus Project has exposed that abuse of powerful surveillance technology “is systematic, and it is global.”
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This is how empires eat themselves
If there was ever a reason to boycott Isreal...
Pegasus.
AND WHY IS IT THAT WE CAN'T PROTECT JULIAN ASSANGE???
Thank you Amy and Juan!! ESPECIALLY ON PEGASUS.. Great journalism!!
Sorry a moritarium is temporary this needs to be outlawed.
I see. Once the psychos realize that they are doing bad things they'll see the errors of their ways, stop their misbehavior and become permanently nice.
Apple said it wouldn’t participate in surveillance programs. I don’t recall them saying they can’t be hacked.
They don't say it, as much as they don't correct others when they say it...
It's not a lie, so much as an unwhole truth...
Apple acquired a reputation among some for being "immune" to attack in the 90s, when the platform was small and did not present as large a target as Windows PCs. This belief was common in the Arab world at the time.
Once again, the telecommunication companies stay silent.
Many of these "hacks" are made feasible by the telecommunication companies.
Companies are in business to make money. Capitalism poisons everything.
THE US/NSA/IS ALSO USING 'PEGASUS'..AND THE NEWEST ONE 'KANGAROO'.
Democracy Now is unparalleled.
Actually, most of this was a PBS report.
What the NSA does on a daily basis is just as bad or worse
The NSA and NSO are allies.. and all these comments saying it's just the way it is are crazy because the world decided enough is enough.. Also I have realized that US citizens are victims of information manipulation and alot are in denial of the reality at hand and heads up man.. Peace
@@mikeg9843 spot on. Big Brother is real, bruv✊🏿
If you have commercial apps on your phone...
... News flash! ...
You already _GAVE_ them exactly the same access by checking terms of services.
IF you have a can you hear me now tracking device
@@orionsshoe2424 no regular radio phone and an actual Ma Bell wired phone. NEVER had a dropped call or bars. LOL
@@pohakumana4288 and perhaps the occasional phone operator eavesdropping on your conversation (for the latest gossip)... lol
Most people don't need to be spied on, they SHOW EVERYTHING on their phone apps.
Right? A good majority post their very details of their lives on fb, everything including where the house key is hidden!
Covering the camera eye on personal cell phones to protect ones close extremly personal lifestyles, & impersonal business livelihood against any & all free range citizens should have amnesty & protection against cybernetic data-miners,sexual degenerates,& highly violative socio-psychopathic strangers who should not ever, by democratic vote or otherwise, thru the technical glitch of be some,such an inhumane unjust systemic crime.Especially with all the abnormal things that are happening as a complete norm in the world right now.If these types of nefarious things that perpetuates the full end of the democratic business of personal privacy are not regulated then 50,000 people of interest who may or may not need to be surveiled,500 million or more citizen individuals including the ones who are doing it will more sooner than later, be personaly infected by such highly invasive crazy as all hell nonsense.When things like this are set forth out into the world for ones own ill- gotten non-integral personal gain.Then it's already vastly problematic to all & every inhabitant, or perhaps even other species of the planet ingeneral.
@@arcang2102 WTF are you trippin on? LOL
Thank you AMY!!
Thank. You. Ishell
Shut it down NOW!!!
Dream on. Even if they convince you that they have shut it down, it won't really be shut down.
@@SkyRiver1 And they will continue to be in the WRONG. Everything’s impossible until it’s done and cynicism is always the catalyst for this level of violation to someone’s human rights. It is never about protecting human beings. It is ALWAYS about isolation and destruction of human rights. Every wrong made right started with a dream and justice was never won with anything but an endless dedication to fighting injustice. Period…What you’re trying to analyze is something you’ve never been through hence the reason you can be cynical. If all humans thought in that way the human race would be doomed to an existence without free will and that is, simply, not an option. We’re out here trying to live and no level of cynicism is going to get in the way of what we KNOW we all deserve.
@@kimberlychappell5555 You mistake realism for cynicism. In reality the sole motive of all the members of the power elite is to maintain and increase their power: nothing else. It does not matter if they are an organizer of a protest or the head of some military strike force. And by the way -- human beings do not have free will, it only seems like that to them. If this were not so, scientist could not tell what a person's actions will be before they decide to act. I know you think you have free will, but it is an illusion, and there is no explaining it to those who are lost in it, as you see to be.
Freedom is not found in illusions: only in facing the facts.
@@SkyRiver1 Is not what you call “facing the facts” free will? And if we were to go down that road, all is illusion. I’m not speaking philosophically about the practice of unlawful surveillance. If I took what I perceive to be your stance, in twenty years when my daughter is a grown woman and it is socially acceptable to violate every human beings right to be without just cause, I would have failed her and her generation as a parent. We show those with power what they can and cannot do. This is why knowledge is power. It was not known until now that Pegasus is and has been violating such a basic human right on such a massive level. A dangerous dangerous thing. We have the information now and the ability to analyze this information. That is free will. The steps forward are those of free will. The chains are in your mind. The chains are acceptance. Your will dies when you accept. Stop speaking of the elite as if they are made of anything but skin, sinew, flesh, bone and blood. They are not invincible gods. If anything, they are more vulnerable to their own devices than any of us will ever be.
Thanks for your support!!! Keep up the good work!!USA
I applaud these journalists!! They should be considered heros nowadays (even though I don't like that term at all) but I feel it applies to investigative journalism as it becomes more and more dangerous.
Sooner we tech ourselves out of existence, better for the planet
@Data Null Void I always speak for myself. It’s presumptuous to think otherwise.
Wrong: sooner or later we tech ourselves into a starfaring civilization with unlimited resources and a pollution free earth: or global warming destroys civilization and your grandchildren are forced to eat their babies for a few more weeks of life.
@@SkyRiver1 hubris has brought humankind to this point. Second chances are undeserved.
@@SkyRiver1 LOL! Magic wands and potions make as much sense as your aspirations, sport.
@@SuperTonyony Spoken like a know-nothing ludite. Pay attention to SpaceX. You will probably see a colony on Mars within your lifetime. If you are going to use a derogatory euphemism such as "sport" the way you wrote it is incorrect, and make no sense if you understand written English. You should have written, ". . . aspirations -- sport." Apparently your view of the future is as inept as your grammar.
They're capable of anything
The US will Increase their Funding to Israel in their next Budgetary Proposal with the Top contribution being for The Military Industrial Complex followed by Israel.
everybody knows this happens, but they cant be troubled to care, and when finally get around to it the culprits will figure out a way past it like always.
The truth is Amnesty is afraid people will discover just how much they doctored the report on Israel.
It's here in Jamaica
"The Horse is out of the Barn" Clyde.
Garuentee the reason DWP now require phone number is UK uses this...
Al go rhythm 👍
Maybe Al Gore really invented the internet. :)
Bow to your new gods people!
Pegged ¥ Assumptions
Whats the update after all this?
They see you when you're sleeping. They know when you're awake. You better not raise up your voice, just be good for goodness sake.
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." ~ Aristotle
You really think your pea-shooter is any defence against the National Security State?
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Pea-shooter??? Aristotle's quote is generally implying that fascists (oligarch and tyrant) are frightened by the mass power and number of people who don't want to abide by their insidious rules and agendas. The security state's agenda shows how truly weak they are by illegally spying on innocent individuals whose voice and principles scare the shit outta the powerful who are losing their legitimacy from their neo-liberal economic mess that they engineered.
@@skeletonrebellion I agree with you, but when they know what you are thinking/doing, and possess an overwhelming number of options for dealing with you should they deem you a credible threat, then they more than have you over the proverbial barrel. Any use of violence can only result in defeat. Resistance isn't futile; violence is. That's why the pea-shooter metaphor is apt.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Point understood. Yet putting fear into the powerful everyday is a pleasure to behold because they know they're outnumbered and they know they're soul will be forever damned.
This could do this anywhere to get inside information on the market and even bitcoin and crypto’s . Nothing is safe.
Now don't get Bugged, if you may find, Somebody has tapped your Line, cause Somebody keep a file on you. Keepin' tabs on your every move~~
We are living in crazy history. We all are serving the Devil to destroy human kind.
Imagine what software is there spying which we dont know off...
So it works like apple air tag?
Why is there totally unnecessary and disruptive background music???
IKR?
....remote viewing doesn't need IP 😂😂😂😂
How can you tell if they’re using it on your phone
It has a 'self-destruct' programmed into it that deletes itself when it detects that it's been compromised.
Very smart little program.
@@2DRonaldo Yeah, when you look at the academic level of computer engineering that went into Stux-net worm, and this is supposed to be way more powerful and sophisticated. Absolutely no way this is secret... Built by universities, the only place that much R&D could take place... We use Israel to cover up the tech we don't want the world to know we have.
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems It's sad that any country uses it to attack journalists.
Kind of expect this kind of behaviour from Israel's Government, no sense of shame.
I'm sure the NSA have posters of Pegasus Project HQ on their locker room doors to jerk off to.
But then most messenger services are just inviting spyware and hackers to eavesdrop.
No end to end encryption, E-Mails and SMS Texts are just outdated relics of the past, no better than sending an open envelope through the mail box, we take that risk every time we text.
Why i'm getting off Facebook for good.
Seriously? . . . If you had been paying attention, Snowden spilled the beans years ago that everything we do on our phones, computers, and other networked devices is recorded and stored. That includes everywhere you take them, and everyone you interact with.
@@SkyRiver1 No shit Sherlock!
Didn't need Edward Snowden to know we've been spied on.
Have you never heard of Napster?
The RIAA have been chasing after kids illegally downloading music for decades before Snowden's name was ever mentioned. The Patriot Act was just an open reminder that big brothers watching us, etc. It's not exactly Rocket Science that the government has been trying to perv into our very lives.
Snowden simply stated the obvious, what made him credible is he worked for these organisations and told us HOW they are spying on us.
Which has lead to all kinds of new innovative tech to hide us from their perving Eyes.
This is basically the descendant of CDC's Back Orifice.
No, are you telling me Israel does not abide by international law? Never 🥴
I'm detecting sarcasm.
@@SuperTonyony 👍
So the NSO Group says it's technology was not, in any way, involved in Kashosgshi's death. OK, well I guess that closes the matter. No privatly owned, for profit company would lie, decieve or mislead when it comes to being involved in the murder of a journalist. Especially a company founded by former SIGINT offciers, operated by former SIGINT officers for the SOLE purpose of gathering SIGINT. I wonder , does NSO group have a specialist legal department that reviews the lawfulness of interception requests based upon the laws of the goverment submitting the numbers? ? No? How shocking!... What a sham!
Nina Cates!! 4 prez
Love Snowden!!!
what does "produced by israel" mean? if by an israeli company, that makes no sense.
Produced by the Israeli company NSO group.
I get it! Psychopaths will cease their sadistic covert operations because. . ..
Wait, because they suddenly felt shame?
Which sub-multiverse do you live in? Can I go there?
They cannot feel "shame". Right. The reason :There is an innert fault in the brain mechanism. The part related to emotion is not developed. This can be diagnosed on brain assessments such as scans, mri's etc. In conclusion they are disfunctional.
@@MonaLisa-lu8zi Hi! Agree that the psychopathic brain produces the psychopathic mind. However what looks like dysfunction from POV of the more evolved mind is actually a mindset which was selected for. It was a ‘feature’ which we now perceive as a ‘bug’.
Tread lightly on the utility of medical imaging. There is a researcher who tried to correlate PET scan patterns to psychopathic behavior. Very promising study until he looked at his own scan which was typical of what his study thought psychopathic! Tough theoretical problems are inherent to investigation of a dynamic process by static means.
The development of the brain does indeed parallel the mind. However there are environmental modulators which affect genetic expression, including mental activity itself. Everything is connected to everything else!
So we all have the genetic potential for psychopathy. Basically, most of us repress this most of the time, but not always or completely. The difference between sociopaths and psychopaths is that the repressive activity of sociopaths is developed but becomes impaired, whereas the psychopaths never develop these repression mechanisms. Sociopaths regress to square one, whereas psychopaths never progress past it. They don't feel that square two is positive.
This whole area falls under the name of ‘Evolutionary Psychology’. Try it, you'll like it !
Thank you for your interest and input; keep it up! The nuts and bolts level of psychology daunting. The APA once said that the average person has 2.6 clinically evident psych malfunctions! This problem is further exacerbated by the production of similar symptoms by different conditions, sorting out their causes is challenging but does lead to neat ‘Aha!’ moments.
U r antiseptic !
The interviewer will do himself a favor by consulting eminent and we'll informed Israeli journalists of Haaretz.
I've rather enjoyed being spied on