Region: Global

Launching today, March 31, 2026, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025, reveals that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented in 52 countries.

Access Now’s latest research unpacks how AI tools are dodging procurement vetting to infiltrate humanitarian organisations, creating new risks for them and the communities they serve.

Join us to learn and take action to prevent spear phishing and other digital attacks against activists, journalists, and human rights defenders.

As of January 2026, Arzu Geybulla has joined Access Now as Co-Executive Director, partnering with Alejandro Mayoral Baños to co-lead Access Now through the evolving human rights landscape of the next year and beyond

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.

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

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.