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Becka White

@beckacita.bsky.social
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researcher at Amnesty Tech's Security Lab | surveillance and gender justice | writer (London Writers Awards; A Writing Chance)

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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Spread the Word are fundraising to run accessible reading and writing activities for Lewisham’s diverse communities, and career development and networking sessions for local writers. Can you help? From 2-9 December all donations will be doubled! bit.ly/boroughoflit...
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Creating the UK's first Borough of Literature – Big Give
Spread the Word is creating Lewisham as the UK's first Borough of Literature. This groundbreaking campaign will celebrate diverse voices, …
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Europe's role in the global spyware crisis must no longer be ignored. Not only is the EU failing to put out the fire, they're fanning the flames. www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/e...
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MEPs: EU must explain funding to spyware companies
: Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate
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Lena Rohrbach @artepovera.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Join us? 💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social 💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech 💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social &Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social
Weißer Text auf schwarzem Grund: Digital Surveillance: How States are Spying on the Resistance, mit Logos von HAU und Amnesty International
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
New @amnesty.org investigation exposing mass surveillance & censorship expansion in Pakistan via foreign firms and public money. #BreakTheFirewall www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty In...
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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Becka White is a great working-class writer and human rights campaigner from south-east London. She's written for the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement – her piece Why Don’t Children’s Book Characters Live in Flats?, published in the latter...
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🏠 There are millions of leasehold homes in England and Wales, whose 'owners' are subject to spiraling and opaque ground rents, service charges and - in my case - repairs costing tens of thousands of pounds. It's an absolute scandal. My story is just one of many👇 thebeemagazine.com/im-a-leaseho...
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I’m a Leaseholder Get Me Out of Here!
Buying a council house is supposed to give working-class people the rights and privileges of middle-class homeowners. But it doesn’t.
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It shouldn't be so hard to find UK children's books that show people living in flats, or in homes with no outdoor space. I shared some of my recommendations with @tesmagazine.bsky.social (and working-class writer extraordinaire @kitdewaal.com shared it here🤩💛!)
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This has made me think of the time my small children met some children from (then) Swaziland on holidays and they asked my boys breathlessly if they’d ever been to a park, because while growing up on a thousands-of-hectares farm they’d read about going to city parks in so many books.
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Old Macdonald Had Some Flats
Judith Barrett
1970
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Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In the move to diversify bookshelves, schools shouldn’t forget about representing different types of homes, writes @beckacita.bsky.social, as she shares her list of recommendations for books set in flats for @tesmagazine.bsky.social
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20 children’s books set in flats
In the move to diversify bookshelves, schools shouldn’t forget about representing different types of homes, writes Becka White, as she shares her list of recommendations
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Amnesty's 2025 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, highlights how tech has played a key role in governments using repressive tactics to attack human rights and silence critics...🧵
Photograph of people walking past the rubble of collapsed and damaged buildings along a street in Gaza City. Overlaying text reads: THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S HUMAN RIGHTS. Amnesty International's Annual Report 2024/2025.
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 07/05/2025
Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse” With comment from my colleague @beckacita.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Global: Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse” Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse”
Responding to a ruling that spyware maker NSO Group must pay more than USD167 million in damages to Whatsapp, Rebecca White, Amnesty International’s researcher on targeted surveillance, said: “This is...
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 27/03/2025
📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of investigative journalists, were targeted ...
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 21/03/2025
Small 🇮🇹Italian cyber intelligence firm Negg recently won a contract to provide its services to the office of PM Giorgia Meloni "after #Paragon was exposed," according to Intelligence Online sources. "The firm is developing a 1-click spyware called VBiss." www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance...
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢NEW: The alarming discovery that Paragon’s Graphite spyware has been used against activists and journalists in Italy underscores Europe's worsening digital surveillance crisis, fuelled by a laissez-faire approach to regulation of the industry. via @donncha.is www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Europe: Paragon attacks highlight Europe’s growing spyware crisis
The use of Paragon’s Graphite spyware against human rights defenders and journalists highlights the growing spyware crisis in Europe.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Paris AI Summit showed that policy makers are ignoring how AI is harming people everyday, writes @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social thewire.in/tech/paris-s...
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Paris Summit Showed That Policy Makers Ignore How AI is Harming People Everyday
The next summit is in India, which is alarming given its record of abusing AI technologies.
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 05/03/2025
🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔 Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware! Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do
Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Online spaces are very important. It’s the easiest way to reach a lot of people and share information. The challenge is...we could face endless harassment and even death threats like I did." Noon, a Muslim Thai LGBTI activist, shares her experience of online violence. #MakeItSafeOnline
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‘They said that I should die if I can’t stop being trans’
Manun Wongmasoh, a Muslim transgender woman, works against the misuse of Islamic principles to discriminate against LGBTI people in Thailand.
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 11/02/2025
Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit. She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
⚡Applications for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensics Fellowship are open. If you're an HRD, journalist or technologist working for a CSO, and you want to expand your digital forensics knowledge with Amnesty's Security Lab team, please consider applying. careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
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Amnesty International Careers
Amnesty International Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 16/12/2024
New @amnesty report reveals how Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign. Read the report 👇
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Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists  
Serbian authorities are using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists in a surveillance campaign.
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill @donncha.is · 16/12/2024
🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵 securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...
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Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists - Amnesty International Security Lab
Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside Cellebrite mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other ind...
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#16DaysOfActivism At Amnesty we're actively campaigning for an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online violence, everywhere. Check out the work we’ve been doing this year with women, girls and LGBTI activists around the world 🧵 www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...
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What is online violence?
Our ability to communicate with people around the world online can be a powerful force for good. But it also creates new ways for people to inflict harm.
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Amnesty's new report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · 20/11/2024
If you're part of civil society and received an Apple notification. The Amnesty Security Lab would be happy to test your phone! The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174 The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/
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About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware - Apple Support
Apple threat notifications are designed to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware.
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Disappointing news from Thailand. Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Thailand: Dismissal of landmark case a critical and alarming setback in fight against unlawful use of spyware
Thai court's dismissal of spyware case against NSO Group is a set-back in the quest for justice for victims of Pegasus spyware.
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Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Online threats can and do translate into offline harms against transgender people. Thoughts from my friend and Amnesty colleague on tech-facilitated gender-based violence, to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
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Stop the hate before it's too late: Thoughts on Transgender Day of Remembrance from Amnesty researcher Shreshtha Das
A throng of chants and loud affirmations that ‘trans rights are human rights’ and ‘not one more trans life will be lost’ set the scene for a demonstration on trans rights that I recently attended. In ...
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 19/11/2024
If you're interested in #spyware, this is a great starting point. I'll keep updating the list as more people join this platform! go.bsky.app/ECCGbqE
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Erika Guevara-Rosas @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our new Amnesty International’a investigation exposes how #Denmark welfare authority’s use of fraud control algorithms and traditional surveillance methods to identify social benefits fraud, is enabling and expanding digitized mass surveillance. Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Denmark: AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance and risks discriminating against marginalized groups – report
The Danish welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), risks discriminating against people with disabilities, low-income individuals, migrants, refugees, and marginalized racial groups through its us...
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