Surveillance Can Be a Form of Violence Against Women & Girls – Pegasus Spyware
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Date: February 17, 2022
Unsafe anywhere: women human rights defenders speak out about Pegasus attacks
A new investigation led by Front Line Defenders reveals the hacking of two women human rights defenders from Bahrain and Jordan using NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware. The hacking discovery comes on the heels of the Pegasus Project revelations of governments in the MENA region and beyond using the spyware to perpetuate human rights abuses and repress activists and journalists.
The impact of surveillance on women is particularly egregious and traumatizing giving how governments have weaponized personal information extracted through spyware to intimidate, harass, and publicly smear the targets’ reputations. As a result, women targets of surveillance live in a perpetual state of fear, become socially isolated and restricted in their social lives, work, and activism. As expressed by one of the victims, Ebtisam Al-Saegh, “personal freedoms are over for me, they no longer exist. I am not safe at home, on the street, or anywhere.”
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