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Any attempt to set policies or binding regulations that impact online speech will be successful only if it is truly inclusive and genuinely garners insight and expertise from civil society.…
15 May 2019
Access Now wrote to the governments of Bulgaria and Cyprus to request investigations into export licenses reportedly issued to NSO Group, which sells surveillance products linked to human rights violations.…
14 May 2019
While we welcome the improvements to the initial European Commission proposal on this file, we doubt its objectives will be achieved. No meaningful evidence has been presented to demonstrate the need, nor the efficacy, of this new European counter-terrorism instrument.…
17 April 2019
Australia’s government have announced the introduction of a new bill that would impose criminal liability on executives of social media platforms if they fail to remove “abhorrent violent content.” The hastily drafted legislation could have serious unintended consequences for human rights in Australia.…
2 April 2019
Access Now joins more than 30 civil society organizations in calling for U.S. House Judiciary Committee leaders to release critical information regarding the current implementation of U.S. surveillance laws.…
18 March 2019
Join us on March 27, 2019, for the Data Privacy Summit, a full-day event to explore the current landscape for privacy and data in the United States, and to chart a path forward for a user-centered data protection framework.…
15 March 2019
Luis Carlos Díaz, a journalist and activist well known throughout Venezuela and the global human rights community, was detained by SEBIN intelligence officers yesterday evening on his way home from work at Union Radio.…
12 March 2019
1 مارس، 2019، بُعثت الرسالة التالية إلى اكثر من 30 وزراء خارجية دول لمناشدة الدول الأعضاء في الأمم المتحدة لاتخاذ قرار في الدورة الأربعين لمجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة يدعو بشكل صريح وعلني إلى الإفراج الفوري وغير المشروط عن…
1 March 2019
At the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, we urge member states to pass a resolution asking explicitly for the immediate and unconditional release of detained Saudi women human rights defenders.…
1 March 2019