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Nearly two weeks after India trashed a report by the US State Department alleging human rights abuses in ethnic violence-hit Manipur, a group of people from the Kuki tribes settled in the US held a "congressional briefing", and took swipes at India.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a close associate of a human rights activist in connection with its ongoing investigation into an NGO terror funding case here, an official said today.

Elon Musk has brought several changes to Twitter, weeks after he took over the microblogging platform. The company's new CEO has dissolved the Trust and Safety Council, which was made up of dozens of independent civil, human rights and other organisations. He has also given selected journalists access to some of the company's internal communication...

Elon Musk on Monday dissolved Twitter's Trust and Safety Council via email. The advisory group comprised around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organisations that provided expertise and guidance on how Twitter could better combat hate, harassment and other harms but didn’t have any decision-making authority and didn’t review speci...

A New York state agency has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon. The e-commerce giant has been accused of discrimination against pregnant and disabled workers by denying reasonable accommodations and forcing them to take unpaid leave. The state law requires all employers to provide reasonable accommodation for pregnant and disabled wor...

Facebook, its parent company Meta, and Sama have been sued by Daniel Motaung, a former content moderator for the company over allegations of human trafficking Africans to work in exploitative facility in Kenya. The lawsuit mentioned that Sama targets people from poor families across Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and other countries...

US-based intelligence company Nisos says it uncovered more than 600 fake Twitter accounts spreading a positive narrative of China's far-western Xinjiang region, as Beijing was being accused of human rights abuses and locking up hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities there.

The FIFA World Cup this year will be held in Qatar, which has led to constant criticism from human rights groups.

An Israeli investigation found “no indication” that police illegally hacked the mobile phones of dozens of public figures.

The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents. and human rights activists has long been established. It suggested its motivation was to “stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.”

Human Rights Watch said that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.

Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents, according to an investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data.

Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence.

UN human rights experts are asking Washington to investigate a suspected Saudi hack that may have siphoned data from the personal smartphone of Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post. But the forensic evidence they cite comes from an incomplete study of Bezos's phone, raising multiple questions.

Amnesty International said Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is “predicated on human rights abuse.”

Nearly two weeks after India trashed a report by the US State Department alleging human rights abuses in ethnic violence-hit Manipur, a group of people from the Kuki tribes settled in the US held a "congressional briefing", and took swipes at India.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a close associate of a human rights activist in connection with its ongoing investigation into an NGO terror funding case here, an official said today.

Elon Musk has brought several changes to Twitter, weeks after he took over the microblogging platform. The company's new CEO has dissolved the Trust and Safety Council, which was made up of dozens of independent civil, human rights and other organisations. He has also given selected journalists access to some of the company's internal communication...

Elon Musk on Monday dissolved Twitter's Trust and Safety Council via email. The advisory group comprised around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organisations that provided expertise and guidance on how Twitter could better combat hate, harassment and other harms but didn’t have any decision-making authority and didn’t review speci...

A New York state agency has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon. The e-commerce giant has been accused of discrimination against pregnant and disabled workers by denying reasonable accommodations and forcing them to take unpaid leave. The state law requires all employers to provide reasonable accommodation for pregnant and disabled wor...

Facebook, its parent company Meta, and Sama have been sued by Daniel Motaung, a former content moderator for the company over allegations of human trafficking Africans to work in exploitative facility in Kenya. The lawsuit mentioned that Sama targets people from poor families across Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and other countries...

US-based intelligence company Nisos says it uncovered more than 600 fake Twitter accounts spreading a positive narrative of China's far-western Xinjiang region, as Beijing was being accused of human rights abuses and locking up hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities there.

The FIFA World Cup this year will be held in Qatar, which has led to constant criticism from human rights groups.

An Israeli investigation found “no indication” that police illegally hacked the mobile phones of dozens of public figures.

The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents. and human rights activists has long been established. It suggested its motivation was to “stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.”

Human Rights Watch said that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.

Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents, according to an investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data.

Facebook says it has shared data with United Nations investigators probing international crimes in Myanmar after the lead investigator said the company was withholding evidence.

UN human rights experts are asking Washington to investigate a suspected Saudi hack that may have siphoned data from the personal smartphone of Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post. But the forensic evidence they cite comes from an incomplete study of Bezos's phone, raising multiple questions.

Amnesty International said Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is “predicated on human rights abuse.”