Release Type: Press Releases

Big ID programs — frequently involving biometric data collection — are being rolled out across the globe, and endangering human rights. Read Access Now’s new report.

Despite all the propaganda in favour of it, Aadhaar, India’s Big ID program, has had a disastrous impact on the lives of millions. Read Access Now’s new report.

We call on U.N. Human Rights Council to take urgent action to denounce the human rights violations facilitated by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.

Today, as Singapore is due to adopt outcomes from Universal Periodic Review, Access Now is calling for an end undue restrictions on fundamental freedoms.

Access Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Open Net Association filed a legal intervention to the ECOWAS Court challenging the constitutionality of Nigeria’s Twitter ban.

The European Parliament must block suggestions to the EU Digital Services Act being negotiated that jeopardise human rights-centric platform governance.

The Facebook Oversight Board’s latest decision on the platforms’s unjustified removal of Palestine news content welcomed, but not enough.

Access Now calls on the Canadian government to fix its online censorship plan, an attack on freedom of expression.