Back to content

Rand Hammoud

Surveillance Campaigner

Rand Hammoud is a Surveillance Campaigner leading Access Now's international campaign efforts in the fight against rights-abusing surveillance laws, technologies, and practices, with a particular focus on spyware and targeted surveillance tech, along with biometric surveillance. Rand is a human rights researcher and campaigner previously working at Amnesty International, where she covered a number of portfolios on the MENA region, including Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. Previously, Rand also worked as a humanitarian field officer responding to the refugee crisis in Lebanon. She holds a bachelor degree from the Lebanese American University in Political Science/International Affairs with a dual-minor in Economics and Conflict Analysis & Resolution. Rand is a feminist illustrator focusing on body and pleasure positive art and a wanna-be tattoo artist. For funzies, Rand is a certified pastry chef.
Hacking Meduza: Pegasus spyware used to target Putin’s critic

Hacking Meduza: Pegasus spyware used to target Putin’s critic

13 Sep 2023

The publisher of Russian independent media org Meduza was hacked with NSO’s Pegasus spyware. As both Russia and Latvia are potential culprits, Access Now demands accountability and sanctions.

Publication
Hacking Meduza: Pegasus spyware used to target Putin’s critic
13 Sep 2023
Hacking Meduza: Pegasus spyware used to target Putin’s critic
Secret surveillance: countering spyware’s threats to freedom of the press and expression

Declaración conjunta: Los Estados deben tomar medidas inmediatas para poner freno al software espía que amenaza la libertad de prensa

3 May 2023
Press Release
Declaración conjunta: Los Estados deben tomar medidas inmediatas para poner freno al software espía que amenaza la libertad de prensa
3 May 2023
Declaración conjunta: Los Estados deben tomar medidas inmediatas para poner freno al software espía que amenaza la libertad de prensa
Secret surveillance: countering spyware’s threats to freedom of the press and expression

Joint statement: States must take immediate action to stop spyware threatening press freedom

3 May 2023

Access Now and partners call on states to take immediate action to stop spyware threatening press freedom.

Press Release
Joint statement: States must take immediate action to stop spyware threatening press freedom
3 May 2023
Joint statement: States must take immediate action to stop spyware threatening press freedom
Secret surveillance: countering spyware’s threats to freedom of the press and expression

No to spyware: media, civil society demand ban on tech used for human rights abuses

3 May 2023

On World Press Freedom Day, it’s time for a ban on rights-abusing commercial spyware.

Press Release
No to spyware: media, civil society demand ban on tech used for human rights abuses
3 May 2023
No to spyware: media, civil society demand ban on tech used for human rights abuses
International Womens Day Header

Silenced, spied on, and stalked: why we’re taking the fight for gender equality to the UN

6 Mar 2023
Post
Silenced, spied on, and stalked: why we’re taking the fight for gender equality to the UN
6 Mar 2023
Silenced, spied on, and stalked: why we’re taking the fight for gender equality to the UN