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Rory Flynn

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Bits and bobs at Amnesty's Security Lab, opinions my own Also available at mastodon.ie/@roolyaboolya 📷: Omar Havana

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Reporter ohne Grenzen @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de · 19h
In #Ägypten sind alle sechs Journalisten des unabhängigen Factchecking-Portals #Matsada2sh festgenommen worden. Wir wissen derzeit nicht, wo sie sind und was ihnen vorgeworfen wird. Wir fordern ihre sofortige Freilassung!
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EIPR condemns arrest of all 6 Matsaddash journalists in less than 24 hours | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amazing job with an amazing organization...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19/09/2026
Amnesty International released a new report concluding that the repressive measures used by Iranian authorities to crush the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 constitute crimes against humanity. We speak with Raha Bahreini, a human rights lawyer and researcher on Iran for Amnesty International.
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“Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown
Four years ago today, the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising erupted in Iran after the death in custody of Zhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested by Iran’s “morality police.” ...
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Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You might not know what a loot box is, but there's teenagers out there who will spent thousands of euros on them from their parent's credit card. Welcome to the fiercest Brussels lobbying battle you have never heard about, but which could completely re-shape the world of online gaming. 🧵
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sabotage: Pipes found attached to rails at dozens of places around the Netherlands at 5:30am. Serious delays in the national train system this morning. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Grootschalige treinstoring ontregelt treinverkeer in Nederland: ‘Er lijkt sprake van sabotage’
Treinverkeer: Op meerdere plekken op het spoor zijn „materialen aangetroffen die daar bewust zijn neergelegd”, waardoor storingen ontstaan. De storing ontstond rond 5.30 uur en speelt op twintig plekk...
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hakan @hatr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some news on "incident 2", the one which had Anthropic "most concerned". Crucially, the malware was stopped within 18 minutes of being uploaded. A trusted security researcher from Austria, working in his spare time, quickly analyzed and then quaranted mlflow-ui www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
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Wie ein Wiener eine KI-Spionagesoftware von Anthropic stoppte
Künstliche Intelligenz lud Schadsoftware auf eine Plattform mit Millionen Nutzern. Ein Cybersicherheitsforscher aus Österreich verhinderte, dass sie sich weiter verbreiten konnte.
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Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨CyberGlobes, an Israeli surveillance firm, has been secretly arming autocrats around the world with tech to target gay men, activists and protesters investigation Gur Megiddo and Omer Benjakob www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Targeted: Gays and protesters. The Israeli cyber firm quietly arming autocrats
An investigation reveals how CyberGlobes software uses social media data to track and map protesters, regime critics, political activists and LGBTQ people. CyberGlobes: 'The report is distorted and mi...
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 12/09/2026
BBC News presenter just pronounced it "Mikhail Martin"
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Statement from President Connolly: We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked. I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 12/09/2026
Back in May, I wrote about an attack on RubyGems, that most people suspected to be DRPK: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet... It was not. It was a rogue OpenAI model: www.rubyhack.ai
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 10/09/2026
‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible. By Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...
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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Really nice to be included in this @columjournreview.bsky.social piece on the future of visual investigations, alongside a great group of people from across the field. I spoke a bit on how the online environment has changed as a space for open-source work and discussion www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
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The future of visual investigations, if we can’t trust our eyes.
Journalists and other experts tell us how, in the age of AI, technology is transforming the work of visual forensics. “We might have to be a little bit more imaginative,” Emily Tripp, of Airwars, says...
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1/ I've just finished a new investigation, and it's a biggie! If you've seen The Levantine, Diplomatic Post, Global Reporters or Frontline Radar running ads on LinkedIn or Meta, you've seen an influence op pushing one side of Sudan's war to millions. 🧵 marcowenjones.substack.com/p/from-north...
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From North Macedonia to Khartoum: someone is paying to put one side of Sudan's war in front of millions
Investigation reveals info op involving a Hong Kong company, three North Macedonians, 558 ads across LinkedIn & Meta, reaching 5 million accounts in the EU alone — all pushing one side of Sudan’s war
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is an important First Amendment victory, backed by a careful, well-reasoned opinion from Judge Noel Wise in the Northern District of California. www.newsday.com/news/nation/...
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Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules
Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who...
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 27/08/2026
@nasoskoukakis.bsky.social has taken his surveillance case to the ⚖️ @echr.coe.int alleging that 🇬🇷authorities failed to conduct an independent, impartial & effective investigation into his monitoring by the country’s intelligence service & through the Predator #spyware. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...
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Greek Predator Spyware Case Moves to European Human-Rights Court - Dnews
Koukakis, a financial and investigative journalist, was subjected to two forms of surveillance: monitoring by Greece’s National Intelligence Service and a separate infection of his mobile phone with P...
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Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A Haaretz investigation, based on IDF soldiers' testimonies and satimagery, reveals how Israel is cultivating a network of Gaza militias: 'Israel Is sending militias to commit war crimes – and I have to protect them' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Haaretz Investigation • 'Israel is sending militias to commit war crimes – and I have to protect them'
A Haaretz investigation, based on IDF soldiers' testimonies, sources in Gaza and satellite imagery, reveals how Israel is cultivating a network of armed militias in Gaza
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Sea-Watch @sea-watch.org · 26/08/2026
Exklusiv: Audioaufnahme, die wir zum ersten Mal veröffentlichen. „Geht zurück, oder ich schwöre bei Gott, ich schieße auf euch.“ Eine Rettungscrew wird auf See bedroht, während Menschen gewaltsam abgefangen werden. Schweigen ist die Strategie der EU: Gebt es ihnen nicht.
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
⏪ Dolly Parton agus Steve Cooney ag casadh 'Coat of Many Colours' i dTigh Pháidí Ó Sé i gCeann Trá, Co. Chiarraí (Sé mo Laoch, 1990) 🤍 Dolly Parton 🕊️ 1946 - 2026 Suaimhneas síoraí dá hanam ceolmhar 🙏🏼
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Conor O'Carroll @conorocarroll.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Tonight, we reveal how water use from data centres almost doubled during the summer, peaking in July when the hosepipe ban was introduced for households. The figures show data centres used over 514 million litres of water between May and July this year. Read on thejournal.ie just after midnight 🔜
A screenshot of an upcoming article on The Journal. The headline reads 'Data centre water use almost doubled during Ireland's long, hot summer months'
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 22/08/2026
‘Is that a body in the water?’ A flight over the ‘mass grave’ that is the Mediterranean Sea
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‘Is that a body in the water?’ A flight over the ‘mass grave’ that is the Mediterranean Sea
The union is accused of collaborating with encouraging ‘extremely violent’ Libyan militias in the Mediterranean in a bid to stop people fleeing war, poverty, persecution and climate change
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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 14/08/2026
Today, our Sea-Watch 5 crew sailed to identify 11 bodies, floating in the Mediterranean Sea. We joined the efforts by @sosmediterranee.org's aircrew, who spotted the deceased with their aircraft Albatross.
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 09/08/2026
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Sruth Beo TG4 | Cainéal Teilifís Éireannach | Súil Eile - TG4
Sruth Beo TG4 ar líne. Cainéal Teilifís Éireannach. Féach aon áit, aon uair!
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 01/08/2026
Prosecutions appear to be continuing for this protest action last year by Jewish activists, during the Salzburger Festspiele. Sound of Music fans will appreciate the irony of this image
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 31/07/2026
Astonishing disrespect to the victims of Assad's torture and the lawyers who fought so hard to get justice for them for many years
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
Glad to see so much uptake of this story which was first reported by Shamim, but please be aware this is entirely typical and unsurprising behaviour by the DOJ. It’s particularly cruel when the students are from Gaza but it’s also part of a pattern of unjustified visa refusals
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended". Thanks to @cathalmalone.bsky.social for writing this for us www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers
A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Irish Govt declines to send diplomatic observer to the bizarre Ulm 5 trial.
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German Chancellor denies ‘show trial’ for Irish citizen over criminal damage to an Israeli arms supplier
Multiple TDs have raised the case of Daniel Tatlow Devally, including Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit to Barry Ward of Fine Gael
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 27/07/2026
> When we later presented our methodology at an invite-only threat intelligence conference, IP-ESSENCE became far less effective. :) medium.com/@billmarczak...
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An Angry Spark, or a Triangle in Disguise?
On April 14, 2026, Gen Digital published “Chasing an Angry Spark”, a report about sophisticated Windows spyware that Gen saw once in 2022…
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Police have identified a suspect, but say no arrests have been made - after car driven into Berlin Pride event, with one dead and 16 injured An intensive manhunt is under way - officers have released a photo of the suspect and are appealing for help finding him www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
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Police name suspect after car driven into Berlin Pride event, with one dead and 16 injured
Police are searching for a man named Abdul B. and say several people were reportedly stabbed in the incident.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Zero-day startup Paradigm Shift took down the blog post and corresponding Proof-of-Concept code for the iPhone flaw they dubbed Usbliter8. Takedown comes following a judge order in the lawsuit filed by Magnet Forensics, which alleges a former employee now at the startup stole the flaw.
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 23/07/2026
NSO Group spent at least $67,500 on lobbying 🇺🇸Congress and U.S. federal agencies in Q1 and Q2 of 2026, through its executive chairman, David Friedman – the former US ambassador to Israel – according to the latest lobbying disclosure filings.
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Al Jazeera Investigates @ajiunit.com · 16/07/2026
Our latest undercover investigation reveals how Western donors evade charity law to provide aid to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Watch in full: aje.news/complicit
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Complicit: Bankrolling the Occupation | Al Jazeera Investigates
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 21/07/2026
Was gilt in Österreich als Verhetzung?
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Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com · 17/07/2026
Tip: If you are working with a PDF and you are unsure if it is safe, you can use a tool like Danger Zone to convert it to a fully secure format. dangerzone.rocks If it's useful to your networks, please pass on the word so we can clear up the incorrect information
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Dangerzone
Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 10/07/2026
Hey Siri, show me a way of destroying your national cybersecurity research capability.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
💥A Russian SVR and GRU cyberespionage operation spent a month inside a Belgrade think tank's inboxes, reading 28,000 emails. As Serbia heads toward elections, the attack reveals a darker pattern: Moscow and Belgrade often chase the same enemies. VSquare.org
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"Hybrid War Over Our Own Democracy and Sovereignty": How Vučić and Putin Targets Serbia's Civil Society - VSquare.org
A Russian cyberespionage operation spent a month inside a Belgrade think tank's inboxes, reading 28,000 emails after posing as a Belarusian dissident to get in. Tied to the SVR and GRU, the hackers weren't just after documents — they walked away with a blueprint of relationships and vulnerabilities that AI can weaponize. As Serbia heads toward elections, the attack reveals a darker pattern: Moscow and Belgrade often chase the same enemies.
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ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
6 Monate ist das schlimmste Massaker seit der Gründung der Islamischen Republik Iran her. Die tausenden Toten interessieren niemanden mehr. Die internationale Gemeinschaft macht keinerlei Anstalten, den Iran zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Bezinpreise sind wichtiger. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Iran: Lack of international justice six months after January protest massacres risks further atrocity crimes
On the six-month anniversary of the January 2026 popular uprising in Iran when security forces carried out mass unlawful killings on an unprecedented scale to crush protests calling for dignity, freed...
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Heute in Haaretz - ein Artikel über die Untersuchung von @alonsahar.bsky.social über die Kampagne der Israel-Lobby gegen UNRWA. Endlich wird über die Macht dieses rechten Netzwekres in großen Medien diskutiert. Sehr empfehlenswer: www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 08/07/2026
Is there a limit to how much you can flood the zone before it's... full www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD
Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/07/2026
I've argued that LLMs facilitate man-in-the-middle attacks on representative democracy, whereby malefactors flood legislators with text and voicemails, preventing them from ascertaining what their actual constituents want and need. The US is uniquely vulnerable because face-to-face is impossible.
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CDT Europe @cdteu.org · 06/07/2026
@citizenlab.ca's Pegasus revelations show the EU's spyware crisis is far from over. CDT Europe, alongside 38 CSOs, is calling for an independent investigation, implementation of the PEGA recommendations, remedies for victims, stronger enforcement, and an end to EU support for spyware companies.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 03/07/2026
A secretive international conference linked to billionaire investor and Donald Trump ally Peter Thiel has been cancelled following weeks of controversy over its planned staging at Powerscourt Hotel in Co Wicklow jrnl.ie/7089941
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Wicklow hotel cancels Peter Thiel-linked 'Dialog' conference
In a statement, Powercourt Estate said that it was “relieved and pleased” that the event was no longer taking place.
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Hannah Neumann @hneumannmep.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I always feared this would happen. The PEGA Committee showed that once mercenary spyware exists, it will be abused. Against journalists. Against activists. Against opposition politicians. Now we know it was also used against those investigating the abuse. 2/9
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Hannah Neumann @hneumannmep.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A Member of the @europarl.europa.eu Stelios Kouloglou investigating #spyware abuse was hacked with #Pegasus while serving on the PEGA Committee. READ THAT AGAIN. They didn’t only target an MEP. They spied on the investigation into spyware abuse itself. 🧵1/9
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Espionage Against the European Parliament: Member of Committee Investigating Spyware Hacked with Pegasus - The Citizen Lab
We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Eur...
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 25/06/2026
Worth highlighting Cellebrite's official response to this thorough research on continued use of their tools by Russia - ugly smears about Citizen Lab's motivations. "Does The Citizen Lab have a geographic/cultural bias given that Cellebrite is an Israeli-founded company?"
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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tonight a Garda AI bill is set to pass in Seanad, allowing gardai - categorise ppl by skin tone, age, gender - identify an unknown suspect based on biometrics, - “localise” an identified person by tracking their movements Dr Róisín Costello and I outline issues👇#AIAct www.iccl.ie/news/garda-a...
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Garda AI bill leaves Irish public vulnerable to discriminatory technologies without safeguards - ICCL and Trinity law professor
The government is giving gardaí AI powers to analyse our biometric data. This is a serious threat to our fundamental rights.
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Rory Flynn @roryflynn.ie · 19/06/2026
Applications close this weekend (Sunday 21st)
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 18/06/2026
The European Commission has evidence that EU governments have been issuing licenses seemingly without conducting serious human rights due diligence, and yet appears to have taken no action. Read more from HRW:
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Bulgaria Licensed Surveillance Exports to Rights Violators
The Bulgarian government between 2018 and 2023 licensed exports of surveillance equipment to countries that were likely to use it for internal repression or to commit serious human rights violations.
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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: Dialog—the secretive, invite-only organization of elites founded by Peter Thiel, often referred to as the Bilderberg Group for tech—exposed the private information of attendees to its annual meeting this year in Ireland. san.com/cc/peter-thi...
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Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that
A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The impact of transnational repression by China is felt daily by Uyghur activists here in Ireland. Nuria Zyden told us her story as part of our investigation into forced labour cotton last year: www.rte.ie/news/investi...
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Uyghur woman in Ireland details Chinese pressure and harassment
Around 200 Uyghurs live in Ireland, part of a minority of 12 million in China's Xinjiang region. The UN says they face possible crimes against humanity — and one woman says Beijing's repression has fo...
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