The Apple and Google app stores offer VPNs without revealing they’re owned by Chinese companies. That keeps Americans in the dark about privacy and national security risks.
Despite sanctions and global scrutiny, Predator spyware operations persist. Insikt Group reveals new infrastructure links in Mozambique, Africa, and Europe, highlighting ongoing threats to civil society and political targets.
We conducted a forensic analysis of devices belonging to two journalists who were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware.
Israel-based spyware maker Paragon and Italy's government had a falling out over the company's offer to help investigate what happened on journalist Francesco Cancellato's phone.
A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.
Both companies have faced controversy in recent years, primarily for their work in circumventing mobile device security features
Spyware maker NSO Group asked a federal judge to reduce the damages it owes to WhatsApp in a case involving 1,400 infected phones, or set up a new trial.
An appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by Jamal Khashoggi's widow against spyware maker NSO Group, citing lack of jurisdiction.
This report documents the blocking of Telegram in Kenya during the 2023 and 2024 KCSE exams based on OONI network measurement data. This report supported a petition filed at the High Court of Kenya in May 2025, and OONI data is used as as evidence in support of this landmark public interest case.
The trio of spyware apps — hacked earlier this year — no longer work.
Beirut, May 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Jordanian authorities to lift Wednesday’s ban on a dozen online news outlets for “spreading media poison and attacking Jordan,” following the publication of allegations that the government unfairly profited from aid to Gaza. “The Jordanian Media Commission’s decision to block 12 media websites is deeply alarming,”...
Seven organizations have today filed a landmark public interest case challenging the unlawful disruption of internet access in Kenya. The organizations are: The International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section (ICJ Kenya), The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE), Paradigm Initiative (PIN), Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), Katiba Institute, The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA). After the case was filed, High Court Justice Bahati Mwamuye issued orders stopping all […]
The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.
It’s a major ruling in a landmark lawsuit that has had plenty of twists and turns — with more likely to come.
OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization.
Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance to improve working conditions.
Alphabet Inc. pays Samsung Electronics Co. an “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall Google generative AI app, Gemini, on its phones and devices, according to court testimony, even though the company’s practice of paying for installations has twice been found to violate the law.
The ruling, which has yet to take effect, was ordered under India's online blocking laws.
Hannah Neumann was targeted in a cyber-espionage operation by an infamous Iranian hacking group earlier this year, she said.
Our investigation of a spearphishing campaign that targeted senior members of the World Uyghur Congress in March 2025 reveals a highly-customized attack delivery method. The ruse used by attackers replicates a pattern in which threat actors weaponize software and websites aimed at preserving and supporting marginalized and repressed cultures to target those same communities.