Digital Security

STAYING SAFE AND SECURE ONLINE

We work to ensure human right defenders and others facing digital security threats have the resources they need to protect themselves and their communities.

Digital Security Helpline

The Digital Security Helpline is a free of charge resource for civil society around the world. We offer real-time, direct technical assistance and advice to activists, independent media, and civil society organizations.…

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International Women's Day

Content Governance

What is doxxing, and how does it endanger women?

This International Women’s Day, we’re telling platforms like Telegram, Twitch, and Meta to take women’s safety seriously.

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Digital Security

Strengthening civil society’s defenses: what Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has learned from its first 10,000 cases

Online civic space is under attack, and Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline is a lifeline that crosses time zones and languages to support at-risk groups and individuals from civil society. The 24/7 computer security incident response team has now assisted on more than 10,000 cases affecting activists, journalists, and non-profit organizations. “Strengthening civil society’s defenses: what Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline” shares what we have learned from the first 10,000 cases, identifying key trends, exploring case studies, and offering insight from data on requests for assistance from across the globe.

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Digital Security

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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity

Submission on the Revised Draft Industry Codes, under the Online Safety Act

24 Mar 2023

Access Now’s submission on the revised Draft Industry Codes under the Online Safety Act.

Publication
Submission on the Revised Draft Industry Codes, under the Online Safety Act
24 Mar 2023
Submission on the Revised Draft Industry Codes, under the Online Safety Act
Release Salma al-Shehab
Content Governance
Content Governance

Open letter: Ghana’s new anti-LGBTQ+ bill threatens human rights

16 Mar 2023

Through an open letter, Access Now and partners call on Ghana’s Parliament to immediately reject the new anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

Press Release
Open letter: Ghana’s new anti-LGBTQ+ bill threatens human rights
16 Mar 2023
Open letter: Ghana’s new anti-LGBTQ+ bill threatens human rights
Release Salma al-Shehab
Content Governance
Content Governance

Put human rights first: Ghana’s parliament must reject repressive anti-LGBTQ+ bill

16 Mar 2023

Access Now and partners call on Ghana’s parliament to immediately reject the new repressive anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

Press Release
Put human rights first: Ghana’s parliament must reject repressive anti-LGBTQ+ bill
16 Mar 2023
Put human rights first: Ghana’s parliament must reject repressive anti-LGBTQ+ bill
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Digital Security
Digital Security

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

6 Mar 2023
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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
#KeepItOn 2022 Report: Weapons of control, shields of impunity - internet shutdowns in 2022
Content Governance
Content Governance

Internet shutdowns in Africa: fewer offenders in 2022, still causing harm

28 Feb 2023

Access Now’s new report, “Weapons of control, shields of impunity: Internet shutdowns in 2022,” unpacks internet shutdowns in Africa and globally.

Press Release
Internet shutdowns in Africa: fewer offenders in 2022, still causing harm
28 Feb 2023
Internet shutdowns in Africa: fewer offenders in 2022, still causing harm
#KeepItOn 2022 Report: Weapons of control, shields of impunity - internet shutdowns in 2022
Connectivity
Connectivity

Resurging internet shutdowns in 2022: weapons of control, shields of impunity

28 Feb 2023
Press Release
Resurging internet shutdowns in 2022: weapons of control, shields of impunity
28 Feb 2023
Resurging internet shutdowns in 2022: weapons of control, shields of impunity
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity

Citizens do not know they are “monitored” by the Russian SORM system

21 Feb 2023
News
Citizens do not know they are “monitored” by the Russian SORM system
21 Feb 2023
Citizens do not know they are “monitored” by the Russian SORM system
Shutdown impact stories in Central Asia
Digital Security
Digital Security

“We were in an information vacuum”: internet shutdowns in Central Asia

15 Feb 2023
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“We were in an information vacuum”: internet shutdowns in Central Asia
15 Feb 2023
“We were in an information vacuum”: internet shutdowns in Central Asia
Content Governance
Content Governance

Tech Power and Cooperation

3 Feb 2023
News
Tech Power and Cooperation
3 Feb 2023
Tech Power and Cooperation
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Content Governance
Content Governance

Access Now oral statement to the UN Global Digital Compact Informal Consultations with Member States and Stakeholders

3 Feb 2023

Access Now’s Senior UN Advocacy Officer Laura O’Brien delivered an oral statement to the UN Global Digital Compact Informal Consultations with Member States and Stakeholders on Feb 3 2023.

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Access Now oral statement to the UN Global Digital Compact Informal Consultations with Member States and Stakeholders
3 Feb 2023
Access Now oral statement to the UN Global Digital Compact Informal Consultations with Member States and Stakeholders
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Digital Security
Digital Security

Two years of dangerous occupation: international community must protect rights in Myanmar

1 Feb 2023

After two years of a violent coup in Myanmar, the international community must condemn the junta’s abuses and surveillance infrastructure.

Press Release
Two years of dangerous occupation: international community must protect rights in Myanmar
1 Feb 2023
Two years of dangerous occupation: international community must protect rights in Myanmar
Shutdowns in Myanmar
Digital Security
Digital Security

Resist Myanmar’s digital coup: International community must dismantle military dictatorship — or reap repercussions

1 Feb 2023

International community must dismantle military dictatorship, resist the coup, and push back against surveillance in Myanmar.

Press Release
Resist Myanmar’s digital coup: International community must dismantle military dictatorship — or reap repercussions
1 Feb 2023
Resist Myanmar’s digital coup: International community must dismantle military dictatorship — or reap repercussions
Shutdowns in Myanmar
Digital Security
Digital Security

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းမှုတွင် ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်နည်းအရ ဖိနှိပ်များရှိရာ တန်ပြန်ခုခံ ဆန့်ကျင်ရန် တောင်းဆို – မလိုလားအပ်သည့် ဆိုးကျိုးများ ထပ်တိုး မကြုံရစေရေး နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်တပ်၏ စစ်စွယ်ကို ချိုးဖျက်ကာ စစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ရပ်တန့်ရေး ကူညီရန် တိုက်တွန်း

1 Feb 2023

International community must dismantle military dictatorship, resist the coup, and push back against surveillance in Myanmar.

Press Release
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းမှုတွင် ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်နည်းအရ ဖိနှိပ်များရှိရာ တန်ပြန်ခုခံ ဆန့်ကျင်ရန် တောင်းဆို – မလိုလားအပ်သည့် ဆိုးကျိုးများ ထပ်တိုး မကြုံရစေရေး နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်တပ်၏ စစ်စွယ်ကို ချိုးဖျက်ကာ စစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ရပ်တန့်ရေး ကူညီရန် တိုက်တွန်း
1 Feb 2023
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းမှုတွင် ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်နည်းအရ ဖိနှိပ်များရှိရာ တန်ပြန်ခုခံ ဆန့်ကျင်ရန် တောင်းဆို – မလိုလားအပ်သည့် ဆိုးကျိုးများ ထပ်တိုး မကြုံရစေရေး နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်တပ်၏ စစ်စွယ်ကို ချိုးဖျက်ကာ စစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ရပ်တန့်ရေး ကူညီရန် တိုက်တွန်း
Myanmar coup
Digital Security
Digital Security

အသက်ပေါင်းများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး ၂ နှစ်အကြာ- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကူညီကာကွယ်ပေးရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအား တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို

1 Feb 2023

After two years of a violent coup in Myanmar, the international community must condemn the junta’s abuses and surveillance infrastructure.

Press Release
အသက်ပေါင်းများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး ၂ နှစ်အကြာ- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကူညီကာကွယ်ပေးရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအား တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို
1 Feb 2023
အသက်ပေါင်းများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး ၂ နှစ်အကြာ- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကူညီကာကွယ်ပေးရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအား တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို
European Media Freedom Act
Digital Security
Digital Security

Submission to the UNESCO Consultation on “Internet for Trust – Towards Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms for Information as a Public Good”

24 Jan 2023
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Submission to the UNESCO Consultation on “Internet for Trust – Towards Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms for Information as a Public Good”
24 Jan 2023
Submission to the UNESCO Consultation on “Internet for Trust – Towards Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms for Information as a Public Good”
Anti-cybercrime
Digital Security
Digital Security

Access Now statement to the fourth session of the UN AHC on Cybercrime on Item 6 (Contd.)

19 Jan 2023
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Access Now statement to the fourth session of the UN AHC on Cybercrime on Item 6 (Contd.)
19 Jan 2023
Access Now statement to the fourth session of the UN AHC on Cybercrime on Item 6 (Contd.)