STANDING UP TO SURVEILLANCE
We fight surveillance laws, policies, and practices that undermine human rights. From investigating spyware attacks that target human rights defenders to fighting biometric surveillance systems that put entire communities at risk, we work to hold manufacturers and investors accountable for the impact of dangerous surveillance tech and push for strict regulations to prevent widespread abuse.
Exiled, then spied on: Civil society in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland targeted with Pegasus spyware
All governments must establish an immediate moratorium on the export, sale, transfer, servicing, and use of targeted digital surveillance technologies until rigorous human rights safeguards are put in place to stop human rights abuses.
Resources
Data Protection
Geneva Declaration: international community unites to end spyware abuse
Access Now and the Government of Catalonia are calling for an end to the proliferation of surveillance tech through the Geneva Declaration.
Digital Identity Systems
Surveilling Europe’s edges: when digitalisation means dehumanisation
In the first of a three-part blog series, Caterina Rodelli explains how digital surveillance is dehumanising people at Europe’s borders.
Data Protection
Manual del Pequeñx Vigiladx
El Manual del Pequeñx Vigiladx es una guía para ayudarte a navegar el sistema judicial en caso de sufrir una detención errónea por sistemas biométricos.
Digital Security
New guide: surveillance technology investors face significant risks if human rights are ignored
A new guide on effective due diligence will help shareholders with investments in surveillance technology prevent and mitigate human rights risks.
Data Protection
Sonic surveillance: why you don’t want AI snooping on you
The threat voice recognition technology poses to our rights needs to be addressed now — before our voices become yet another piece of biometric data to be used against us.
Surveillance
Ban Biometric Surveillance
Some surveillance technologies are so dangerous that they inevitably cause far more problems than they solve. The use of facial recognition and remote biometric technologies in publicly accessible spaces enables
Digital Security
MENA Surveillance Coalition: stop all surveillance tech sales to the region’s autocratic governments
The MENA Surveillance Coalition is demanding the immediate end to the sale of surveillance technology to Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) autocratic governments.
Latest Updates
Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa
Two prominent Egyptian journalists targeted with elaborate spearphishing campaign
Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups
Hack-for-hire: new report investigates hacking campaign against Egyptian journalists
A new report by Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline, Espionage for repression: forensic analysis of a cross-border hack-for-hire campaign targeting civil society in MENA, exposes a hack-for-hire campaign targeting two prominent Egyptian journalists and government critics, Mostafa Al-A’sar and Ahmed Eltantawy, through a series of spear-phishing attacks.
How selling to a repressive regime almost broke a tech firm
DarkSword’s GitHub leak threatens to turn elite iPhone hacking into a tool for the masses
AI, surveillance & migration: inside Europe’s tech-driven border policies + the rise of renting apps
From cooperation to complicity: meet the companies powering the EU’s war on migrants
In new research, Access Now reveals the private sector companies helping to build Fortress Europe, via relationships with the EU agencies focused on migration and border security.
Shadowy surveillance: Access Now maps the companies implementing the EU’s migration policies
Access Now’s latest research exposes the private sector companies building and profiting from the EU’s extensive surveillance infrastructure.
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Will NSO’s U.S. lobbying pay off under Trump?
How the EU is building a dystopian, surveillance-driven, deportation machine
From Sandvine to AppLogic Networks: a rebrand doesn’t mean reform
Access Now, alongside several human rights organizations and independent news platforms, are calling on AppLogic Networks (previously Sandvine) to substantiate its announced corporate reforms following its removal from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List.
Spyware maker is hijacking diplomatic efforts to limit commercial hacking, civil society warns
WhatsApp releases account feature that looks to combat spyware
One year on, the new European Commission is abandoning human rights
A year into its new mandate and the European Commission is reversing course when it comes to safeguarding human rights in the EU.