The Spyware Accountability Initiative (SAI) is a global movement to protect human rights defenders, journalists, and activists worldwide from spyware. Your donation will go directly to nonprofit organizations that make it harder for bad actors to develop, acquire, and deploy these dangerous surveillance technologies. Work we support includes:

Powering a Network of Defenders
SAI-supported research labs in Latin America have built a powerful, collaborative network to share tools and ideas, helping smaller organizations develop the ability to uncover advanced spyware operations. To fuel this work, regional leader SocialTIC created a key resource: the Digital Forensics for Human Rights Defenders portal. This multilingual guide shares expert methodologies and best practices, empowering emerging threat labs across the region to build their capacity and strengthen the entire network’s ability to fight back against targeted surveillance.

Pursuing Justice, No Matter the Odds
Legal momentum is building: a U.S. court ordered NSO Group to pay $167 million in damages in its case with Meta, and an appeals court revived a suit against NSO led by SAI grantee Knight First Amendment Institute. Both of these actions were advanced by the legal arguments and technical evidence of SAI partners. At the same time, we fund the painstaking work of partners like Media Defence, which has pursued more than 20 spyware cases and continues to fight for victims by filing appeals in countries with poor judicial independence.

Making Technology Safer for Everyone
A global network of SAI partners from DigitalReach in Southeast Asia to CyberHUB in Armenia are on the front lines of technical discovery, finding and closing the security holes that spyware companies exploit. In one case, researchers at Citizen Lab discovered a flaw in Apple’s Messages app that was actively being used to infect the phones of European journalists with spyware. They reported the vulnerability to Apple, which promptly issued a patch to secure the millions of iPhones used by activists, reporters, and citizens around the world.

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