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Daniel Leufer

Daniel Leufer

Senior Policy Analyst and Emerging Technologies Policy Lead

Daniel is a Senior Policy Analyst at Access Now’s Brussels office and Emerging Technologies Policy Lead. His work focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on digital rights, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, and biometrics. While he was a Mozilla Fellow, he developed aimyths.org, a website that gathers resources to tackle myths and misconceptions about AI. He has a PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven in Belgium and is a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures.

AI Action Summit

AI-accelerated warfare must stop

15 Jun 2026

As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at unprecedented speed and scale, Access Now, Amnesty International, and more than 200 civil society organizations and individuals are calling attention to the militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and for an immediate halt to the use of AI systems in the military kill chain.

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AI-accelerated warfare must stop
15 Jun 2026
AI-accelerated warfare must stop
AI Action Summit

Joint statement on AI in warfare

15 Jun 2026

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that creates significant new risks for accountability in conflict and risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law.

Press Release
Joint statement on AI in warfare
15 Jun 2026
Joint statement on AI in warfare
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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI

19 Feb 2026

In the third part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.

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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI
19 Feb 2026
Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI
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Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity

12 Feb 2026

In the second part of our series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we examine how LLMs threaten information integrity.

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Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity
12 Feb 2026
Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity
AI

A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act

10 Feb 2026

We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the deletion of the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems that is proposed in the AI Omnibus. This transparency safeguard ensures that providers of AI systems cannot circumvent the core obligations of the AI Act.

Press Release
A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
10 Feb 2026
A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
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Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality

5 Feb 2026

In the first part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we unpack how LLMs can jeopardize the confidentiality of people’s data.

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Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality
5 Feb 2026
Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality
Ceasefire in Gaza

CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine

22 May 2025

Human rights NGOs and academics condemn efforts to muzzle discussion of the genocide in Gaza at the 2025 CPDP conference in Brussels.

Press Release
CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine
22 May 2025
CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine
6-years-GDPR

Six years of the GDPR: Priced out of privacy

18 Nov 2024
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Six years of the GDPR: Priced out of privacy
18 Nov 2024
Six years of the GDPR: Priced out of privacy
UN Global Digital Compact

Why human rights must be at the core of AI governance

24 Sep 2024

Human rights are being sidelined in conversations around AI governance. Here’s how to re-center them.

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Why human rights must be at the core of AI governance
24 Sep 2024
Why human rights must be at the core of AI governance
2024 Joint civil society statement on cyber and human security

Open letter to European Commission: the dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online

16 Sep 2024
Press Release
Open letter to European Commission: the dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online
16 Sep 2024
Open letter to European Commission: the dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online