Region: Europe
Rising repression meets global resistance: internet shutdowns in 2025
Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented 313 internet shutdowns in 2025 — the highest number since 2016.
From cooperation to complicity: meet the companies powering the EU’s war on migrants
In new research, Access Now reveals the private sector companies helping to build Fortress Europe, via relationships with the EU agencies focused on migration and border security.
Shadowy surveillance: Access Now maps the companies implementing the EU’s migration policies
Access Now’s latest research exposes the private sector companies building and profiting from the EU’s extensive surveillance infrastructure.
A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
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.
DSA Human Rights Alliance publishes principles calling for DSA enforcement to incorporate global perspectives
One year on, the new European Commission is abandoning human rights
A year into its new mandate and the European Commission is reversing course when it comes to safeguarding human rights in the EU.
Digital rights are on the chopping block in the European Commission’s Omnibus
One year on, EU AI Act collides with new political reality
Access Now’s submission to the consultation on the AI Act
