Tag: Business & Human Rights

New leaked document on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) exposes threats to privacy, data protection, and net neutrality.

a new bill is up for a vote that could drastically affect the human rights of Kenyans

Surveillance impacts everyone, especially the most vulnerable and at-risk populations. It is past time that all users demand action, domestically as well as internationally, for the universal respect of human rights.

Migration Commissioner Avramopoulos decided not to wait for the opinion of the CJEU on EU-Canada PNR and signaled his desire to quickly reach an agreement on the 2011 passenger data directive.

Global conversations on cybersecurity, particularly in the west, have been largely focused on securing critical infrastructure. This nation-state-level focus has, perhaps unsurprisingly, implicated the military in defending a country’s national borders and national infrastructure, with “cyber” now joining air, land, sea, and space as a 5th domain of military warfare. To maintain the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the digital age, nations must now advance a user-focused approach to cybersecurity.

This week, the conference of presidents of the European Parliament gave its final approval to the appointments of Giovanni Buttarelli and Wojciech Rafa? Wiewiórowski to become the new heads of the European Union Data Protection Authority.

For the second straight year, the United Nations has declared that government communications surveillance poses a threat to the right to privacy.

Anyone who thinks that net neutrality is a boring issue for computer geeks needs to look outside the U.S. Countries around the world are championing the cause of an open internet by pushing for laws and policies that protect the features that made the internet what it is today. And they are just as fired up about net neutrality as President Obama himself was just this month, when he gave his full support for the open net. Net neutrality is not an American issue, or a European issue, or an African issue. It is increasingly a global issue.

To shed more light on the dark landscape of government surveillance online, Access has pushed for greater transparency from companies on the requests they receive to share data and disrupt networks.