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Why has Israel’s NSO changed its WhatsApp spyware attack strategy?
Earlier this month, Meta announced that it had detected a new spear-phishing attempt linked to the Israeli surveillance group NSO,…
Should you upload a photo of yourself on an AI platform? The short answer is no, and here’s why
Every few months, a new AI image trend takes over social media. In early 2025, millions uploaded their photos to…
Criminalizing Truth: Gulf Governments Must End the Crackdown on Information
Since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, triggering a wave of Iranian missile…
Everyone else owns subsea cables. Why doesn’t Lebanon?
Subsea cables are the hidden infrastructure of the internet. They are fiber-optic systems laid across seabeds, carrying around 98 percent…
Dual-use and dual damage: what the targeting of data centers means for civilians
For the first time in military history, private-sector commercial data centers have been deliberately targeted and damaged in an active…
Solidarity in times of crisis: what RightsCon 2026’s cancellation means for civil society
RightsCon 2026, one of the biggest in-person convenings for digital rights, was de facto cancelled after Zambia’s government postponed it…
Lebanon’s data security problem, explained
As the war escalates, the digital battlefield is proving just as volatile as the physical one putting civilian lives directly…