Tag: Business & Human Rights
Academics & experts tell Senate to avoid data retention mandates
Today twenty-two professors of law, technology, and human rights sent a letter to Senate leaders urging them to keep data retention out of the USA Freedom (USAF) Act.
Spotlighting surveillance: Where states can lead on transparency reporting
States have lagged far behind other stakeholders when it comes to reporting on their surveillance activity, especially on national security matters.
Russian Email Giant Takes Over VKontakte, ‘Russia’s Facebook’
Joint Submission to the UN UPR Working Group
Access, in coordination with partners, has submitted a comment in advance of the Human Rights Council 2015 Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America, which calls for reform of current surveillance laws, including the establishment of remedial mechanisms.
The urgent need for MLAT reform
The process for sharing criminal investigation information between countries is broken: official exchanges between nations are slow, underfunded, and lacking in user protections. Human rights are at risk.
Invitation to Apero on the Future of the Internet
Freshly released GISWatch reports address surveillance
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos) released the 2014 Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) report covering the state of digital surveillance around the globe. Access wrote the GISWatch country report for the U.S., The Necessary and Proportionate Principles and the US government.
APC, Access Briefing note to the Human Rights Council 27th Session
This briefing note, prepared by APC and Access, highlights the key internet rights-related issues in the Human Rights Council’s agenda for the 27th session, as well as countries scrutinized in the Universal Periodic Review.
Access, Coalition to President: Reform Surveillance Now
Access, joined by members of Congress, former government officials, and dozens of civil society groups and private companies, has urged the Obama Administration to reform surveillance practices under Executive Order 12333, which authorizes mass surveillance by NSA and other intelligence agencies with no meaningful limits.
UPDATED: Why I’m going to Geneva for the NetMundial Initiative
This has already been a historic year in internet governance, from the NetMundial to the first steps of the IANA transition to the announcement of the modalities for the WSIS+10 Review and the ITU Plenipotentiary ahead. As governments, corporations, civil society, and the technical community assess this changing landscape, we should now add the NetMundial Initiative (NMI), which will hold its first meeting in Geneva this week.