Update: AppLogic responded to our letter on February 20, 2026. Read their full response.
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. The open letter comes on the heels of the company’s lack of transparency regarding its withdrawal from Egypt and its failure to provide meaningful remedies for past abuses linked to its technology, including its persistent refusal to engage with Egyptian civil society, independent media, and affected stakeholders.
On October 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security removed AppLogic from the Entity List, citing the company’s announced corporate reforms and its stated shift toward servicing democracies committed to the protection of human rights. This comes after the company’s addition to the Entity List in February 2024, following documented misuse of its deep packet inspection (DPI) technology by Egyptian authorities for mass web monitoring, censorship, and the repression of human rights defenders and dissidents, including the enabling of spyware injections against critics.
AppLogic took an important first step by acknowledging past harms and announcing reforms to stop the human rights abuses it helped facilitate for years. However, it is deeply disappointing that these reforms have largely remained at the level of public statements. In Egypt — the very reason the company was blacklisted — AppLogic has so far failed to follow through on its commitment to engage with impacted civil society groups, despite repeated outreach from our side.Marwa Fatafta, MENA Policy and Advocacy Director at Access Now
As part of its announced reforms, AppLogic Networks publicly committed to exiting Egypt, among other non-democratic jurisdictions, by December 31, 2025, as well as to consulting with civil society and affected stakeholders in support of internet freedom and digital rights. However, to date, the company has not provided a transparent accounting to confirm its complete exit from Egypt, nor has it offered clarity on how it plans to address potential abuses facilitated by its remaining equipment in the country or to remediate past and possibly ongoing human rights violations.
AppLogic Networks may have a new name and logo, but if they don’t come clean on the effectiveness of their corporate reforms, and provide remedy for those it harmed when known as Sandvine, then it’s the same human rights abusing entity. This not only leaves past abuses unaddressed but also exposes how fragile existing accountability mechanisms are when they’re swayed by PR rather than real change.Rand Hammoud, Surveillance Campaigns Lead at Access Now
Access Now and multiple other human rights organizations have previously urged AppLogic Networks to clarify the adequacy and effectiveness of its announced reforms and provide remedies for the human rights abuses caused. They have also warned that corporate commitments must be assessed on the basis of verifiable action, not mere policy statements or press releases. The U.S. government’s decision assumed that announced reforms would be implemented in practice. The continued lack of transparency and action undermines not only the credibility of AppLogic’s reform claims but also the integrity of accountability mechanisms designed to prevent human rights abuse.
Read the open letter.