In collaboration with privacy and civil rights organizations, Amnesty International launched Detekt, an app that enables people to scan their devices for traces of surveillance spyware, created with activists and journalists in mind.
The free web tool, backed by Amnesty International and developed by German-based security researcher Claudio Guarnieri, working with Digitale Gesellschaft, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy International, is available to the public for download.
The new technology will allow users to determine when their computer or mobile device is being monitored. “By alerting them to the fact that they are being spied on, they will have the opportunity to take precautions,” Amnesty said in an online statement.
Marek Marczynski, head of military, security and police at Amnesty, explained that the tool will prove most useful to journalists and activists who deal with sensitive information and are concerned about authorities spying on their communications.
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