By Natalie Mortimer

Human rights charity Amnesty International has launched a new tool to enable journalists and human rights defenders to avoid being spied on by the government.

According to Amnesty International, the new Detekt tool is the first tool to be made available to the public that detects major known surveillance spyware, some of which is used by governments, in computers.

It has been developed by security researcher Claudio Guarnieri, and is being launched in partnership with Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy International.

“Detekt is a simple tool that will alert activists to such intrusions so they can take action,” Read full story ›

Source: The Drum