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How to connect with RightsCon Toronto from anywhere

We’re excited to welcome your participation in RightsCon Toronto on May 16-18, whether in person or online!…

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Freedom of Expression

Joint statement: Let’s #SwitchItOn and #KeepitOn!

Access Now and the Internet Society on the need to protect the core of the internet for digital rights…
16 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

How to connect with RightsCon Toronto from anywhere

We’re excited to welcome your participation in RightsCon Toronto on May 16-18, whether in person or online!…
16 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

Learning about creating safe spaces together at RightsCon Toronto

To facilitate important conversations about stopping harassment, abuse, and violence, we are holding three sessions at RightsCon Toronto featuring experts in this area.…
14 May 2018

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Business and Human Rights

New report: FinFisher changes tactics to hook critics

It’s been over five years since Citizen Lab first exposed the use of FinFisher surveillance malware to target Bahraini activists. The use of FinFisher spyware against critics has not stopped.…
14 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

Access Now apology and context for Code of Conduct report

Before and during RightsCon 2017, our policies and practices failed an abuse and harassment survivor on a range of fronts. We want to publicly convey our sincere apologies.…
14 May 2018

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Business and Human Rights

RightsCon Toronto: Make a local impact & support future changemakers

As part of our partnership with Betterplace, we are offering this year’s RightsCon participants an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the Toronto community where we have gathered.…
14 May 2018

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Privacy

Nominate your Human Rights Heroes & Villains

Deadline to nominate: February 1, 2019 We believe that human rights are universal — including on the internet. Technology has given us new and powerful ways to exercise our rights, but the internet can also be a battlefield where those…
11 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

My rights, my internet: Understanding global sentiment towards life online

Through our survey with RIWI, we aim to help the RightsCon community better understand public sentiment toward issues that are central to our work on human rights in the digital age. …
11 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

Iran: The block on Telegram is a blow to freedom of expression

Today Access Now joins a coalition of rights organizations to urge the Iranian Judiciary and the Hassan Rouhani administration to restore Telegram for Iranians.…
11 May 2018

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Digital Security

Testimony before the Parliament of Australia: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement

We told members of Australia’s parliament that encryption is central to protection for human rights, the digital economy, and the preservation of cybersecurity.…
11 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

Community Voices: Don’t miss these Access Now grantees at RightsCon Toronto

With so many amazing sessions to choose from, we wanted to take a moment to recognize the contribution that Access Now grantees are making to the program and to the RightsCon community.…
10 May 2018

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Freedom of Expression

Building positive, safe, and inclusive communities at RightsCon

As the host of RightsCon, the enjoyment and safety of all participants is of the utmost importance to us. We take seriously our responsibility in creating and upholding our Code of Conduct, which all RightsCon participants have already agreed to.…
9 May 2018