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Here’s what we expect for Europe’s cybersecurity agenda this fall.

Google released its semi-annual transparency report today, indicating an increase in government requests for content removal worldwide–although more than half came from a handful of countries.

Ranking Digital Rights has released its 2017 Corporate Accountability Index, unveiling new indicators to encourage meaningful change — including tracking corporate response to internet shutdowns.

We share the reasons we signed the Call and identify the parts we do not support and advocate changing.

It’s back! After two successful years, the third installation of the “Freedom Not Fear International Action Days” are happening this weekend, the 27th – 30th September, in Brussels, Belgium. FNF will bring together privacy activists and data protection experts from around Europe and the world, to participate in talks, political organizing, and networking in the capital of European policy.

The U.S. passed an intelligence budget authorization law on Monday, continuing the troubling practice of keeping the intelligence budget classified, while offering modest transparency reform and whistleblower protections.

On Monday, July 20th, the U.S. State Department held a consultation with civil society to discuss the recommendations that the U.S. received during a U.N. review of its human rights record. Access participated remotely, and asked representatives of the Obama Administration to accept 16 recommendations regarding the right to privacy and unlawful surveillance. The recommendations include conducting a review of U.S. national laws and policies in order to ensure that all surveillance of digital communications is consistent with international human rights obligations.

The U.S. government has developed and deployed a surveillance system that records every single telephone call made in an unnamed country outside the U.S. for up to 30 days.

The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been a disaster for privacy and free expression, with consequences for people all across the globe. Here’s how we’re fighting back.