Release Type: Press Releases

Today Access Now joined more than 30 public interest and human rights organizations in a letter to the U.S. Congress that calls for continued support of the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and global internet freedom.

Access Now joins coalition letter to U.S. Congress calling for civil rights and privacy protections in COVID-19 response technology.

Amazon’s decision to ban police use of Rekognition for one year is a step in the right direction, but the company must do more to safeguard human rights.

The letter calls on the Commission to enact strong uniform rules across the Union so that surveillance vendors are prevented from “licence shopping” among the states with weaker implementation of current export controls rules.

Access Now stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and all those exercising their fundamental right to protest across the United States and around the world to call for justice and an end to human rights violations against the Black community.

A coalition of civil society groups working on freedom of expression issues in Southeast Asia has successfully sued the government for purposely shutting down the internet in Papua and West Papua during protests in 2019.

Access Now and partners file amicus brief in internet service providers’ challenge to Maine broadband privacy statute.