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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill
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Head of Security Lab - Amnesty International

Hunting spyware and unlawful surveillance targeting activists and civil society.

For help with digital forensics or suspect spyware threats contact: https://securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/
Highly recommend reading the excellent technical analysis from @interseclab.bsky.social. They mined the huge Geedge Networks leak to understand how techniques powering their surveillance and censorship products.

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September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Press Release 📣 Report reveals how China’s Geedge Networks and Myanmar telecoms companies are enabling the illegal junta’s digital terror campaign

Read the report and press release on our website 👉🏽 buff.ly/u77rUHa #GreatFirewallExport #JusticeForMyanmar
September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As part of a consortium of researchers and journalists, I spent the better part of a year digging into leaked documents from Chinese security company Geedge, which plays a pivotal role exporting the Great Firewall around the world: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...
Leaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technology
Geedge Networks is providing censorship capabilities to foreign governments, including those in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New Research: Our investigation indicates that the Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting mass surveillance and censorship technology to Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia. #GreatFirewallExport (1/5)
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The full report from our team @amnesty.org Security Lab details 29 companies and exporting states, including the UAE, USA, Germany, France and China which have powered the surveillance and censorship apparatus in Pakistan.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty In...
www.amnesty.org
September 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This investigation was only possible through an excellent year-long collaborative investigation with civil society and media partners @interseclab.bsky.social, @justiceformyanmar.org, @torproject.org, @papertrailmedia.de, Follow The Money, DER STANDARD and The Globe and Mail.
September 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM