Region: North America
A Flock of problems with mass surveillance
The EU must act now to protect privacy and encryption from Canada’s overreaching Bill C-22
Access Now, alongside several European civil society organisations, are urging Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, European Union commissioners, and members of the European Parliament to push for changes to Canada’s Bill-C22, the Lawful Access Act.
Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22
We, the undersigned organisations and experts, write to urge you to act before Canada’s Senate completes its consideration of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, and to press Canada to remove the bill’s surveillance capability mandates and its blanket data retention regime.
Access Now urges the Ninth Circuit to protect encryption from NSO’s spyware
Yesterday, Access Now and ten other civil society organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S.’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals calling to protect encryption from NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware and to keep the lower court’s permanent injunction forbidding NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp or its customers’ devices ever again.
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.
مزيد من المساءلة: الولايات المتحدة تدرج ساندفين على قائمة الحظر بسبب تمكينها للقمع الرقمي في مصر
ترحّب أكسس ناو بإدراج الحكومة الأمريكية شركة ساندفين، التي تتخذ من كندا مقراً لها، في قائمة الكيانات، بسبب تزويدها الحكومة المصرية بتقنية الفحص العميق للحزم.
Access Now marks 10 years of resourcing digital rights activism
Access Now grants marks 10 years of funding digital rights activism globally, celebrating 10 extraordinary grantees.
The U.S. has reactivated its Paragon contract — and it should alarm everyone
ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
