Tag: Big Tech
Free Salma al-Shehab, Saudi’s Twitter activist! Even Big Tech has a role to play
Access Now and partners call on Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately release women’s rights activist and academic Salma al-Shehab.
Saudi authorities must release women’s rights activist Salma al-Shehab
In a joint statement, Access Now and partners call on Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately release Salma al-Shehab.
Post-Roe, civil society calls on data brokers to do no harm
Access Now, Amnesty International USA, and Fight for the Future called on four geolocation data brokers to ensure their practices are not harming the privacy and reproductive rights of people seeking abortions.
How the world’s biggest investors could transform Big Tech
This year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) season for the tech sector has come and gone, but the results for Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon tell a surprisingly hopeful story for digital rights advocates.
The world needs U.S. antitrust legislation: Big Tech must not determine global human rights
Access Now and digital rights organizations around the world call on the U.S. Congress to pass antitrust reform to hold Big Tech accountable.
Compromise at last — U.S. bipartisan data privacy bill is positive step towards tackling discrimination
Access Now is encouraged by the introduction of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act.
What does Musk’s “free speech” look like for the rest of us?
Elon Musk’s simplistic views of freedom of expression could catapult Twitter from a toxic space to a worse one — especially for those of us tweeting from the margins.
Vietnam’s new social media take-down rules will intensify state censorship — they must be revoked
Access Now is calling on Vietnam’s government to immediately revoke the new social media take-down rules.
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Open letter to the EU: protect people affected by Russia’s attack on Ukraine
In a letter to the EU, Access Now provides recommendations related to tech platforms and telecoms operators in the context of the war in Ukraine.