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EU takes minimal steps to regulate harmful AI systems, must go further to protect fundamental rights
The European Commission just launched its Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence. Unfortunately, the new proposal falls short of meeting the minimum requirements needed to safeguard human rights in the EU.…
21 April 2021
Petition
Ban automated recognition of gender and sexual orientation
Automated recognition of gender and sexual orientation is scientifically flawed and puts LGBT+ lives at risk. The European Union has the opportunity to ban this technology and prevent such tools from being exported around the world. Sign now!…
6 April 2021
Press Releases
Looking tough, but hampering rights: civil society organisations say no to online Terrorism Regulation
Access Now, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Civil Liberties Union for Europe, and 58 other civil society organisations are urgently calling on Members of the European Parliament to reject the proposed Terrorism Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online.…
25 March 2021
Press Releases
#KeepItOn report: internet shutdowns shatter dreams, endanger lives
Authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020. Access Now’s new report, Shattered dreams and lost opportunities: a year in the fight to #KeepItOn, explores where, how, and why, the internet was deliberately switched off in 2020, and the long-lasting repercussions for communities across the globe.…
3 March 2021
Access Now in the News
E-Privacy – Vom Yeti zum Käse
Karoline Meta Beisel, Süddeutsche Zeitung
24 February 2021
Press Releases
Human rights groups to U.N. Special Rapporteur on Belarus: it’s time to stop internet shutdowns, website blocking, anti-extremism laws
Access Now, and a coalition of human rights organizations are raising serious concerns about the escalating human rights situation in Belarus, submitting detailed information to Anaïs Marin, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.…
19 February 2021
Blog
The EU should regulate AI on the basis of rights, not risks
Artificial intelligence and automated decision-making systems threaten our fundamental rights. Yet the EU is considering an approach to AI regulation that would substitute rights-based protections for a mere risk mitigation exercise by corporations with a vested interest in these systems. Here’s why that’s a grave mistake.…
17 February 2021
