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Save GDPR

Four years of slow enforcement: a new EU law will save the GDPR

12 Jul 2022

Access Now’s new report explains how the European Commission can save the GDPR — by introducing a supporting legislative act to bolster its application.

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Four years of slow enforcement: a new EU law will save the GDPR
12 Jul 2022
Four years of slow enforcement: a new EU law will save the GDPR
Myanmar's digital dictatorship

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းနှင့် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများ ဖုံးကွယ်ရန် စစ်တပ်က အင်တာနက် ဖြတ်တောက်ခြင်းများကို လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိရာ ရပ်တန့်ရေး ပို၍ လုပ်ဆောင်ကြရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ လှုပ်ရှားဆောင်ရွက်သူများအားလုံးကို တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို

12 Jul 2022

International actors must do more to stop internet shutdowns shrouding torchings and killings in Myanmar

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းနှင့် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများ ဖုံးကွယ်ရန် စစ်တပ်က အင်တာနက် ဖြတ်တောက်ခြင်းများကို လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိရာ ရပ်တန့်ရေး ပို၍ လုပ်ဆောင်ကြရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ လှုပ်ရှားဆောင်ရွက်သူများအားလုံးကို တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို
12 Jul 2022
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခြင်းနှင့် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများ ဖုံးကွယ်ရန် စစ်တပ်က အင်တာနက် ဖြတ်တောက်ခြင်းများကို လုပ်ဆောင်လျက်ရှိရာ ရပ်တန့်ရေး ပို၍ လုပ်ဆောင်ကြရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ လှုပ်ရှားဆောင်ရွက်သူများအားလုံးကို တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို
spyware

Stop the deal: U.S. defense contractor to buy NSO Group

11 Jul 2022

Access Now is raising the alarm about the planned sale of sanctioned spyware purveyor NSO Group to U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Tech.

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Stop the deal: U.S. defense contractor to buy NSO Group
11 Jul 2022
Stop the deal: U.S. defense contractor to buy NSO Group
Antitrust

The world needs U.S. antitrust legislation: Big Tech must not determine global human rights

11 Jul 2022

Access Now and digital rights organizations around the world call on the U.S. Congress to pass antitrust reform to hold Big Tech accountable.

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The world needs U.S. antitrust legislation: Big Tech must not determine global human rights
11 Jul 2022
The world needs U.S. antitrust legislation: Big Tech must not determine global human rights
Access Now theme

The Indian government’s overbroad Twitter takedown orders must be declared unconstitutional

6 Jul 2022

The court must declare authorities’ overbroad Twitter takedown orders as unconstitutional, and bring to light abuse of power online. 

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The Indian government’s overbroad Twitter takedown orders must be declared unconstitutional
6 Jul 2022
The Indian government’s overbroad Twitter takedown orders must be declared unconstitutional
Burkina Faso internet

Uzbekistan region in information vacuum, authorities must #KeepItOn

6 Jul 2022

Access Now is demanding an end to an information vacuum that is exacerbating social unrest in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan.

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Uzbekistan region in information vacuum, authorities must #KeepItOn
6 Jul 2022
Uzbekistan region in information vacuum, authorities must #KeepItOn
Access Now theme

Immediately no: TikTok’s new personalised ads will jeopardise rights in Europe

5 Jul 2022

TikTok must halt its plan to force personalised ads on all users over 18, and the European Data Protection Board to should intervene.

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Immediately no: TikTok’s new personalised ads will jeopardise rights in Europe
5 Jul 2022
Immediately no: TikTok’s new personalised ads will jeopardise rights in Europe
brightly coloured image of fists and signs

Global coalition of NGOs urge Indonesia to repeal censorship regulations

4 Jul 2022

The ministerial regulations MR5 and the amendment MR10 contain content moderation provisions that are inconsistent with internationally recognized human rights, including freedom of expression and opinion.

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Global coalition of NGOs urge Indonesia to repeal censorship regulations
4 Jul 2022
Global coalition of NGOs urge Indonesia to repeal censorship regulations
Saudi Arabia Internet Governance

Iran: Meta Must Protect the Iranian #MeToo Movement

29 Jun 2022

Access Now joins civil society organizations in urging Meta to immediately investigate the attacks on activists of the #MeToo movement in Iran.

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Iran: Meta Must Protect the Iranian #MeToo Movement
29 Jun 2022
Iran: Meta Must Protect the Iranian #MeToo Movement
Digital censorship

Indian CERT’s Directions will weaken cybersecurity and privacy: experts call for deferral and public consultation

27 Jun 2022

Access Now supports cybersecurity experts from around the world in calling on India’s CERT-In to defer implementation of the new April Directions.

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Indian CERT’s Directions will weaken cybersecurity and privacy: experts call for deferral and public consultation
27 Jun 2022
Indian CERT’s Directions will weaken cybersecurity and privacy: experts call for deferral and public consultation