Amnesty International has accused the authorities of several countries, including Serbia, of using espionage software such as Pegasus or Predator to spy on the media and citizens, Deutsche Welle (DW) reports.
Amnesty also criticizes the dangers of new technologies and artificial intelligence. The report states that we are moving faster and faster towards a world “ruled” by corporations and unregulated artificial intelligence.
Lena Rohrbach, an expert on human rights in the digital age, said at the launch of the report in Berlin that there is a danger that facial recognition software will also be used at the European Championships in Germany and the Olympic Games in Paris, and that this practice will continue.
It is already being used by the police in Russia, but also in New York to film demonstrators.
The use of espionage software such as Pegasus or Predator is particularly highlighted. “They enable a whole new level of transnational repression,” Rohrbach criticized.
As she pointed out, last year Serbia, Armenia, India and others used software to spy on the media and civil society.
The development on the classic Internet is not optimistic either. Amnesty specifically criticizes the promotion of hatred against Jews and Muslims online. In Europe and the US, it is said to have led to a “clear increase in Islamophobic and anti-Semitic hate crimes”.
Amnesty’s current report has 417 pages and examines the state of human rights in 150 countries.
