The 2024 #KeepItOn report on internet shutdowns is out. Read on for key insights from this year’s data.

The #ProtectNotSurveil coalition analyses a proposed reform of the Europol agency which will increase unlawful surveillance against migrants.

We’re refreshing our Transparency Reporting Index to reflect current practices and trends, including adding reports on content governance.

As 2025 gets underway, Access Now’s new Executive Director, Alejandro Mayoral Baños, PhD, shares his reflections on the “black snakes” threatening the digital rights movement.

As policymakers around the world seek to rein in Big Tech, we define the safeguards necessary to ensure rule of law and protect human rights and democracy.

Amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent and peaceful protests in many EECA countries, most recently Georgia, CyberHUB-AM and Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline have prepared a guide to support protestors to stay safer online.

Governments across the Arab region already use cybercrime laws to violate human rights, and the UN cybercrime convention risks making this even easier.

The ascent of cyber warfare is weaponizing our digital world; it’s time to embrace the concept of “digital ceasefire.”

Big Tech is playing a central role in enabling the relentless mass slaughter and destruction unleashed in the war in Gaza.

In the third and final part of her blog series, Caterina Rodelli examines how EU migration policies and detention practices on the island of Samos are strengthening the EU’s wider, permanent mass surveillance infrastructure.

In the second part of her blog series, Caterina Rodelli explains how EU-funded research projects on border surveillance are legitimising violent migration policies in Greece.