CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering the European Games in Belarus
June 13, 2019 12:45 PM ET
The second European Games is scheduled to take place in Minsk, Belarus, from June 21 to June 30. Local and international journalists covering the Games should be aware of media regulations, the potential for data theft, and the risk...
German draft legislation would enable intelligence agencies to spy on journalists
June 7, 2019 8:30 AM ET
Berlin, June 7, 2019 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the German Ministry of the Interior to drop draft legislation that would make it easier for intelligence services to surveil journalists and their sources....
CPJ Safety Advisory: Spyware vulnerability found in WhatsApp
May 14, 2019 2:03 PM ET
New York, May 14, 2019--A vulnerability that infects phones with spyware has been identified in the messaging app WhatsApp, according to reports. The attack targets users of Android and iPhone and involves calling users over WhatsApp. Those targeted report...
NSO Group responds to spyware abuse allegations with spin
March 27, 2019 1:41 PM ET
Entering the terms "NSO Group," "journalists," and "spying" into a Google search from a workstation in New York City recently produced a sponsored search result at the top of the page. The NSO Group manufactures some of the world's...
Widow of slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez targeted by spyware
March 20, 2019 5:42 PM ET
Mexico City, March 20, 2019--Griselda Triana, the widow of slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, was targeted by spyware identified as Pegasus in 2017 in an apparent spying attempt, according to a new report released today by Canadian research...
Ukrainian investigative journalists report being followed, monitored
February 25, 2019 3:26 PM ET
Kiev, February 25, 2019--The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern for the safety of journalists working at Ukraine's Schemes and Bihus.Info investigative journalism outlets after both reported being followed and surveilled last week, and called on authorities to...
Surveillance tops foreign correspondents' concerns in China, FCCC finds
January 29, 2019 11:29 AM ET
Working conditions for foreign correspondents in China further deteriorated in 2018, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China annual survey. The report, "Under Watch: FCCC Annual Working Conditions Report 2018," highlights growing digital and human surveillance, as well...
How the Saudis may have spied on Jamal Khashoggi
October 31, 2018 10:33 AM ET
Omar Abdulaziz, a 27-year-old Saudi Arabian dissident, can still remember the time Jamal Khashoggi, the storied Saudi journalist, unfollowed him on Twitter. It was in 2015, and Khashoggi had been tapped to head a new TV network called Al-Arab,...
CPJ Safety Advisory: Pegasus spyware used to target journalists, civil society
October 1, 2018 5:34 PM ET
In a report published on September 18, Citizen Lab said it had detected Pegasus, a spyware created for mobile devices, in over 45 countries. Pegasus, which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station, could have been deployed against...
CPJ joins call for Sweden to uphold human rights in EU regulation on surveillance equipment exports
September 13, 2018 11:23 AM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists wrote to Annika Ben David, Sweden's ambassador-at-large for human rights, as part of a coalition of eight other civil society organizations....