Tag: Business & Human Rights
A missed opportunity for net neutrality in Europe
Today the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament voted on the European Telecoms Single Market proposal. With its provisions that put net neutrality at risk, this contentious E.U. legislation will have a critical impact on how European users experience the internet since across the continent.
Russia cracks down on domestic political opposition
Government censorship of news reporting online severely undermines human rights and freedoms of all Russians.
Google encrypts search, aims to foil China, NSA
Access welcomes historic USG announcement on IANA transition to global community
Access has supported greater international oversight of internet resources. We welcome today’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Commerce intends to transition its current coordinating role over the internet’s domain name system — the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, or IANA — to the ‘global multistakeholder community.’
RightsCon Silicon Valley conference roundup
Time to Encrypt All the Things
It’s time to expand the public discourse. It’s time to talk about how to properly secure data and defend privacy.
The International Criminal Court at RightsCon: Upping its cyber game
EP adopts the Data Protection Reform Package
Today, the European Parliament adopted the Data Protection Regulation and Directive, commonly referred to as the Data Protection Reform Package (DPR). This vote represents another crucial step towards protecting European user data and the completion of the long-awaited reform proposed by the European Commission back in January 2012.
Happy birthday internet kittens, and all those other things that make our lives awesome.
Access invites every internet user to wish the World Wide Web a happy birthday by using #web25 or by visiting webat25.org.
US surveillance program under scrutiny by UN Human Rights Committee
This week the United States will stand before an expert body at the United Nations and be forced to face difficult questions regarding its human rights record, including its performance on the right to privacy. Among the list of issues prepared by the Human Rights Committee for the review and shadow reports by human rights organizations is mass government surveillance and the U.S.’s refusal to recognize the extraterritorial application of human rights obligations.