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Digital Security
Digital SecurityPost

How U.S. funding cuts expose civil society to digital attacks

9 Apr 2025
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How U.S. funding cuts expose civil society to digital attacks
9 Apr 2025
How U.S. funding cuts expose civil society to digital attacks
Sweden
Privacy
PrivacyPress ReleaseEuropeEnglish

Joint letter on Swedish Data Storage and Access to Electronic Information legislation

9 Apr 2025

Swedish authorities must reject legislation that would force companies to undermine the encryption of their services.

Press Release
Joint letter on Swedish Data Storage and Access to Electronic Information legislation
9 Apr 2025
Joint letter on Swedish Data Storage and Access to Electronic Information legislation
elections
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAfricaFrench

Les autorités gabonaises doivent garantir un accès internet libre et sécurisé pendant les élections

8 Apr 2025

Authorities in Gabon must ensure unfettered access to the internet throughout the upcoming elections in the country on April 12, 2025.

Press Release
Les autorités gabonaises doivent garantir un accès internet libre et sécurisé pendant les élections
8 Apr 2025
Les autorités gabonaises doivent garantir un accès internet libre et sécurisé pendant les élections
Authorities Gabon #KeepItOn
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAfricaEnglish

#KeepItOn: authorities in Gabon must safeguard open and secure internet access during elections

8 Apr 2025

#KeepItOn urges authorities in Gabon to keep the internet, social media, and all communication channels open and secure during the April 12 elections.

Press Release
#KeepItOn: authorities in Gabon must safeguard open and secure internet access during elections
8 Apr 2025
#KeepItOn: authorities in Gabon must safeguard open and secure internet access during elections
autorités gabonaises
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAfricaFrench

#KeepItOn : Nous exhortons les autorités gabonaises à garantir un accès Internet ouvert et

8 Apr 2025

La coalition #KeepItOn exhorte le Gabon à garantir l’accès à Internet et aux réseaux sociaux avant, pendant et après les élections du 12 avril.

Press Release
#KeepItOn : Nous exhortons les autorités gabonaises à garantir un accès Internet ouvert et
8 Apr 2025
#KeepItOn : Nous exhortons les autorités gabonaises à garantir un accès Internet ouvert et
elections
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAfricaEnglish

Gabonese authorities must ensure internet access throughout upcoming elections

8 Apr 2025

Authorities in Gabon must ensure unfettered access to the internet throughout the upcoming elections in the country on April 12, 2025.

Press Release
Gabonese authorities must ensure internet access throughout upcoming elections
8 Apr 2025
Gabonese authorities must ensure internet access throughout upcoming elections
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of ExpressionPress ReleaseEuropeEnglish

All democratic forces must act for a strong and independent civil society

7 Apr 2025

We call on all democratic forces to oppose disinformation around
the role of civil society organizations to protect the unique role in European
democracy.

Press Release
All democratic forces must act for a strong and independent civil society
7 Apr 2025
All democratic forces must act for a strong and independent civil society
Shutdowns in Myanmar
Press ReleaseAsia PacificEnglish

Joint statement: Myanmar must lift internet restrictions following devastating earthquake

31 Mar 2025
Press Release
Joint statement: Myanmar must lift internet restrictions following devastating earthquake
31 Mar 2025
Joint statement: Myanmar must lift internet restrictions following devastating earthquake
Shutdowns in Myanmar
Press ReleaseAsia PacificBurmese

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ အဆိုးဝါးဆုံးမြေငလျင်ဒဏ်ခံရချိန်တွင်အင်တာနက်အပါအဝင် ဆက်သွယ်ရေးလိုင်းများ ဆက်လက်ဖြတ်တောက်ထားခြင်းနှင့်အင်တာနက်​ကန့်သတ်မှုများ ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်နေသော စစ်ကောင်စီအား ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုံချပြီး၊ အဆိုပါ ကန့်သတ်ထားမှုများကို ပယ်ဖျက်ရန်တောင်းဆို

31 Mar 2025
Press Release
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ အဆိုးဝါးဆုံးမြေငလျင်ဒဏ်ခံရချိန်တွင်အင်တာနက်အပါအဝင် ဆက်သွယ်ရေးလိုင်းများ ဆက်လက်ဖြတ်တောက်ထားခြင်းနှင့်အင်တာနက်​ကန့်သတ်မှုများ ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်နေသော စစ်ကောင်စီအား ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုံချပြီး၊ အဆိုပါ ကန့်သတ်ထားမှုများကို ပယ်ဖျက်ရန်တောင်းဆို
31 Mar 2025
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ အဆိုးဝါးဆုံးမြေငလျင်ဒဏ်ခံရချိန်တွင်အင်တာနက်အပါအဝင် ဆက်သွယ်ရေးလိုင်းများ ဆက်လက်ဖြတ်တောက်ထားခြင်းနှင့်အင်တာနက်​ကန့်သတ်မှုများ ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်နေသော စစ်ကောင်စီအား ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုံချပြီး၊ အဆိုပါ ကန့်သတ်ထားမှုများကို ပယ်ဖျက်ရန်တောင်းဆို
UN Global Digital Compact
Connectivity
ConnectivityPress ReleaseGlobal

Joint statement: five-point plan for an inclusive WSIS+20 review

29 Mar 2025
Press Release
Joint statement: five-point plan for an inclusive WSIS+20 review
29 Mar 2025
Joint statement: five-point plan for an inclusive WSIS+20 review
FreeAlaa Banner
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of ExpressionPress ReleaseEnglish

Joint appeal for Alaa Abd el-Fattah

14 Mar 2025
Press Release
Joint appeal for Alaa Abd el-Fattah
14 Mar 2025
Joint appeal for Alaa Abd el-Fattah
GDPR procedural
Data Protection
Data ProtectionPublicationAsia Pacific

Submission on India’s draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules

11 Mar 2025

Access Now’s comments and recommendations on India’s draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.

Publication
Submission on India’s draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules
11 Mar 2025
Submission on India’s draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules
Bodily harms: how AI and biometrics curtail human rights PR header
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligencePublicationAsia Pacific

Comments on MeitY’s report on AI governance guidelines

11 Mar 2025

Access Now’s comments on the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) report on AI governance guidelines.

Publication
Comments on MeitY’s report on AI governance guidelines
11 Mar 2025
Comments on MeitY’s report on AI governance guidelines
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27 Feb 2025

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27 Feb 2025
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A pathway forward for digital rights by Brett Solomon
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of ExpressionPress ReleaseAsia Pacific

Joint statement on emerging digital laws in Bangladesh

25 Feb 2025

Access Now urges the Interim Government of Bangladesh to ensure its approach to digital governance reforms to ensure is rights-based.

Press Release
Joint statement on emerging digital laws in Bangladesh
25 Feb 2025
Joint statement on emerging digital laws in Bangladesh
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAsia PacificHindi

2024 में किये गए रिकॉर्ड तोड़ इंटरनेट शटडाउन: अधिकारों के हनन में एशिया प्रशांत सबसे आगे

23 Feb 2025

एक्सेस नाउ और #KeepItOn गठबंधन की नई रिपोर्ट ने पाया की पिछले नौ सालों के रिकॉर्ड में, 2024 इंटरनेट शटडाउन के लिए सबसे खराब साल रहा।

Press Release
2024 में किये गए रिकॉर्ड तोड़ इंटरनेट शटडाउन: अधिकारों के हनन में एशिया प्रशांत सबसे आगे
23 Feb 2025
2024 में किये गए रिकॉर्ड तोड़ इंटरनेट शटडाउन: अधिकारों के हनन में एशिया प्रशांत सबसे आगे
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAfrica

The worst year in shutdowns: a blow to democracy and human rights in Africa

23 Feb 2025
Press Release
The worst year in shutdowns: a blow to democracy and human rights in Africa
23 Feb 2025
The worst year in shutdowns: a blow to democracy and human rights in Africa
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAlgeria

Digital violence in MENA : impunity and internet shutdowns in 2024

23 Feb 2025

Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report reveals that 41 shutdowns were imposed in 17 countries across the MENA region in 2024.

Press Release
Digital violence in MENA : impunity and internet shutdowns in 2024
23 Feb 2025
Digital violence in MENA : impunity and internet shutdowns in 2024
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAsia Pacific

အင်တာနက်ပိတ်ဆို့မှုများ အဆိုးဆုံးကြုံရသည့်နှစ် – အာရှပစိဖိတ်ဒေသက ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်အတွက် ရှက်ဖွယ် ကျူးလွန်သူများစာရင်းမှာ ဗိုလ်ဆွဲခဲ့

23 Feb 2025

၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်သည် အင်တာနက်ပိတ်ဆို့မှု အဆိုးရွားဆုံး ဖြစ်သည့်နှစ်​အဖြစ် တရားဝင် မှတ်တမ်းဝင်သွားသည်။ စံတန်ဖိုးတွေလျော့ကျဖောက်ပြန်လာသည့် …

Press Release
အင်တာနက်ပိတ်ဆို့မှုများ အဆိုးဆုံးကြုံရသည့်နှစ် – အာရှပစိဖိတ်ဒေသက ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်အတွက် ရှက်ဖွယ် ကျူးလွန်သူများစာရင်းမှာ ဗိုလ်ဆွဲခဲ့
23 Feb 2025
အင်တာနက်ပိတ်ဆို့မှုများ အဆိုးဆုံးကြုံရသည့်နှစ် – အာရှပစိဖိတ်ဒေသက ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်အတွက် ရှက်ဖွယ် ကျူးလွန်သူများစာရင်းမှာ ဗိုလ်ဆွဲခဲ့
Internet Shutdowns
Internet ShutdownsPress ReleaseAfghanistan

Worst year for internet shutdowns: Asia Pacific tops the 2024 shame list

23 Feb 2025
Press Release
Worst year for internet shutdowns: Asia Pacific tops the 2024 shame list
23 Feb 2025
Worst year for internet shutdowns: Asia Pacific tops the 2024 shame list

Access Now in the news

Defending digital rights: inside Access Now’s global fight for online freedom

25 Apr 2025
News
Defending digital rights: inside Access Now’s global fight for online freedom
25 Apr 2025
Defending digital rights: inside Access Now’s global fight for online freedom
Surveillance

Judge limits evidence about NSO Group customers, victims in damages trial

23 Apr 2025
News
Judge limits evidence about NSO Group customers, victims in damages trial
23 Apr 2025
Judge limits evidence about NSO Group customers, victims in damages trial
MENA Cybercrime Laws
Digital Security

How to protect yourself from phone searches at the U.S. border

21 Apr 2025
News
How to protect yourself from phone searches at the U.S. border
WIRED ↗
21 Apr 2025
How to protect yourself from phone searches at the U.S. border
Bigger, bolder: U.S. slaps sanctions on spyware company and executives
Surveillance

Cyber experts offer lukewarm praise for voluntary code governing use of commercial hacking tools

11 Apr 2025
News
Cyber experts offer lukewarm praise for voluntary code governing use of commercial hacking tools
CyberScoop ↗
11 Apr 2025
Cyber experts offer lukewarm praise for voluntary code governing use of commercial hacking tools
Proceed with caution: Sandvine removed from U.S. Entity List
Surveillance

U.S. to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses

11 Apr 2025
News
U.S. to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses
The Record ↗
11 Apr 2025
U.S. to sign Pall Mall pact aimed at countering spyware abuses
México: un Decálogo de Derechos Digitales en Redes Sociales o una receta para la censura
Transparency

Making money out of a disaster: fake news in Myanmar quake

10 Apr 2025
News
Making money out of a disaster: fake news in Myanmar quake
Reuters ↗
10 Apr 2025
Making money out of a disaster: fake news in Myanmar quake
autorités gabonaises
Internet Shutdowns

Gabon elections – “We urge authorities to ensure unrestricted access to the internet”

10 Apr 2025
News
Gabon elections – “We urge authorities to ensure unrestricted access to the internet”
10 Apr 2025
Gabon elections – “We urge authorities to ensure unrestricted access to the internet”
UN Cybercrime Treaty: FAQ on necessary reforms
Cybersecurity

Rights group calls on Thai government to end alleged cyberattacks against civil society

10 Apr 2025
News
Rights group calls on Thai government to end alleged cyberattacks against civil society
The Record ↗
10 Apr 2025
Rights group calls on Thai government to end alleged cyberattacks against civil society
Surveillance

Spyware maker NSO Group is paving a path back into Trump’s America

10 Apr 2025
News
Spyware maker NSO Group is paving a path back into Trump’s America
WIRED ↗
10 Apr 2025
Spyware maker NSO Group is paving a path back into Trump’s America
NSO
Surveillance

The talented Mr. Kurz: how Austria’s ex-leader made it big in Israel’s cyber industry

9 Apr 2025
News
The talented Mr. Kurz: how Austria’s ex-leader made it big in Israel’s cyber industry
Follow the Money ↗
9 Apr 2025
The talented Mr. Kurz: how Austria’s ex-leader made it big in Israel’s cyber industry
How to get rid of targeted ads on TikTok (only in the EU)
Content Governance

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams

6 Apr 2025
News
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
The Guardian ↗
6 Apr 2025
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Togo elections internet access
Internet Shutdowns

Myanmar’s internet blackout is costing lives in earthquake-hit areas

3 Apr 2025
News
Myanmar’s internet blackout is costing lives in earthquake-hit areas
Rest of World ↗
3 Apr 2025
Myanmar’s internet blackout is costing lives in earthquake-hit areas
Mozambique #KeepItOn

A new wave of blocks in Russia targets VPN apps and Cloudflare subnets

31 Mar 2025
News
A new wave of blocks in Russia targets VPN apps and Cloudflare subnets
TechRadar ↗
31 Mar 2025
A new wave of blocks in Russia targets VPN apps and Cloudflare subnets
Digital Security Helpline BG

How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked

31 Mar 2025
News
How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked
TechCrunch ↗
31 Mar 2025
How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked
autorités gabonaises

Myanmar’s internet censorship limits information about quake

31 Mar 2025
News
Myanmar’s internet censorship limits information about quake
The New York Times ↗
31 Mar 2025
Myanmar’s internet censorship limits information about quake
EU Human Rights Agenda

Proton CEO: Tech sovereignty requires demand for European services

17 Mar 2025
News
Proton CEO: Tech sovereignty requires demand for European services
Euractiv ↗
17 Mar 2025
Proton CEO: Tech sovereignty requires demand for European services

Events

Join us at an upcoming event hosted by Access Now or our partners, and reach out to connect with us in person or online.

RC 25

RightsCon 2025, Taipei and online

February 24 @ 8:00 am February 27 @ 4:15 pm CST

Event
RightsCon 2025, Taipei and online

February 24 @ 8:00 am February 27 @ 4:15 pm CST

RightsCon 2025, Taipei and online
Privacidad en desplazamiento migratorio, Migrar Sin Vigilancia
Surveillance

Lanzamiento del informe “Privacidad en desplazamiento migratorio” de la Coalición latinoamericana #MigrarSinVigilancia

18 December 2024 @ 9:00 am 10:30 am CST

Event
Lanzamiento del informe “Privacidad en desplazamiento migratorio” de la Coalición latinoamericana #MigrarSinVigilancia

18 December 2024 @ 9:00 am 10:30 am CST

Lanzamiento del informe “Privacidad en desplazamiento migratorio” de la Coalición latinoamericana #MigrarSinVigilancia
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024: when digital rights collide with digital oppression
Freedom of Expression

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024: when digital rights collide with digital oppression

13 December 2024 @ 4:00 pm 5:30 pm CET

This event brings together Saudi activists, human rights organizations, and digital rights advocates to highlight the ethical concerns surrounding IGF 2024 and amplify the voices calling for the protection of human rights in digital spaces.

Event
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024: when digital rights collide with digital oppression

13 December 2024 @ 4:00 pm 5:30 pm CET

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024: when digital rights collide with digital oppression
Authorities Gabon #KeepItOn
Internet Shutdowns

Prolonged shutdowns: An analysis of the silenced voices in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia

29 October 2024 @ 2:00 pm 3:30 pm GMT

Event
Prolonged shutdowns: An analysis of the silenced voices in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia

29 October 2024 @ 2:00 pm 3:30 pm GMT

Prolonged shutdowns: An analysis of the silenced voices in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia