Region: North America

Your guide to what’s happening in the U.S. battle to save Net Neutrality, the principles that keep the internet open and free.

Access Now is urging the conference organizers to take steps immediately to ensure an inclusive, representative, and fully informed discussion.

Any system that permits governments to access data abroad must be built on human rights protections and account for the law of the countries involved.

Our initial draft list of sessions gives you a taste of what’s to come at this year’s RightsCon in Toronto!

Access Now released a new report that concludes that any policy mandating backdoors into encrypted products “would likely be effective for only a minimal time, would be substantially costly, and might harm security in general.”

Here’s what you need to know about the visa process.

This bill would give law enforcement around the globe — particularly in the U.S. — more access to users’ private data without sufficient privacy protections.

Read our comments for NIST, a U.S. agency that creates technical standards, on its framework for cybersecurity.

The European Commission will soon introduce legislation on cross-border access to electronic evidence. That legislation must protect human rights.

The U.S. Senate passed — and President Trump has signed into law — a bill that will extend and expand invasive surveillance programs like PRISM and Upstream. But we have reason to be hopeful that this fight is not over.