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28 May 2021, 01:01 UTC Since it was founded in 1961, Amnesty International has been empowering people like you to take action for a better world. This is a snapshot of what you have made possible.   “Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. The newspaper reader feels a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelin...

Google announced in December 2020 that it intends to establish a "Cloud region" in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has a dismal human rights record, including digital surveillance of dissidents, and is an unsafe country to host the Google Cloud Platform

Human rights groups and activists have called on Google to halt plans to establish a Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia until the company can publicly demonstrate how it will mitigate risks to human rights. In December 2020, Google announced an agreement with Saudi Aramco to set up a Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia and offer Enterprise Cloud services there “with a particular focus on businesses in the Kingdom”. The Google Cloud Platform is one of the largest data storage and cloud computing s...

Google Told to Halt Cloud-Computing Project in Saudi Arabia Last year, Google announced that it had finalized a deal to build a major new cloud-computing center called Google Cloud regions in Saudi Arabia. The company believes that this step will allow businesses there to “confidently grow and scale their offerings in this market.” The company has already Google Cloud regions in the US, Indonesia, and South Korea. In the second phase, along with Saudia Arabia, the search engine giant plans ...

Amnesty International: Hackers attacking Vietnam dissidents February 24, 2021 GMT BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists in the latest blow to freedom of speech in the communist-ruled country. The human rights group said Wednesday that Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found evidence of the hacking attempts in phishing emails sent to two dissidents, one in the Phil...

AMNESTY International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists, in the latest blow to freedom of speech in the communist-ruled country. The human rights group said on Wednesday that Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found evidence of the hacking attempts in phishing emails sent to two dissidents, one in the Philippines and one in Germany. Cybersecurity firms earlier identified hacking attempts by Ocean Lot...

Vietnamese online journalists face censorship at home Attacks highlight repression faced by activists Amnesty said the activists and the NGO were sent emails pretending to share an important document with a link to download a file. These files included spyware for Mac OS, Android and Windows operating systems — thereby covering the vast majority of mobile devices and computer operating systems. Amnesty said its analysis of the malicious emails showed Ocean Lotus was responsible for sending t...

Human rights defenders subjected to spyware attacks Ocean Lotus group suspected of having link to Vietnamese government Notorious hacking group