Tag: Apple

The U.S. Congress must act to protect the privacy and civil rights of users amidst the deployment of COVID-19 response technologies across the country.

Only 10 of the 24 companies publicly responded to Access Now’s open letters asking for improvement in one key area based on each company’s evaluation results of the Ranking Digital Rights Index.

Responding to civil society pressure, Apple has affirmed its commitment to free expression and “will consider providing additional details” on human rights safeguards.

The recent reports of Apple’s removal of the Chinese version of the Quartz news app and the HKmap.live app from the App Store, as well as the censorship of iOS mobile games in China, raise questions about the company’s commitment to freedom of expression.

The recent decisions by Apple to remove the Chinese version of the Quartz news app and the HKmap.live app from the App Store, as well as reports of the censorship of iOS mobile games in China, underscore why we urged Apple to fully commit to respecting freedom of expression.

Companies that use differential privacy have greater responsibility to be transparent about what they can (or cannot) do to protect our data.

For at-risk users, privacy is vital for safety and the exercise of human rights. In part two of our series on differential privacy, we take a close look at the complexities of implementing the approach.

We are creating tools and systems that discriminate against vulnerable populations and make the internet less secure. That has to change.