Tag: Business & Human Rights
UNGA76 Side Event: The digital surveillance crisis and threats to human rights defenders
This October 21, 2021 event discussed how states, facilitated by private companies, are unlawfully deploying targeted surveillance technologies against civil society around the world.
Four strategies to defend encryption and our human rights
When we fight for encryption, we fight for human rights. It enables us to stay safe online, and communicate privately and freely. Yet governments keep pushing to undermine it, and companies are caving in. Here are four ways encryption advocates can push back.
يسهل الاتحاد الأوروبي لوصول الدول إلى أدوات المراقبة: تدعو منظمة اكساس ناو و الخصوصية الدولية إلى فتح تحقيق
EU facilitates surveillance: Access Now, PI demand an investigation
Access Now is calling on the European Ombudsman to open an inquiry into EU institutions’ failure to respect human rights when transferring surveillance tools abroad.
Facebook’s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say
Access Now to Telenor’s Board: Stop the sale in Myanmar
The Telenor Board must immediately stop the sale of its Myanmar operations to M1 Group, and protect the human rights of subscribers in Myanmar.
Was Passenger Name Record data exploited to kidnap Belarusian journalist? Access Now calls for EU investigation
Access Now is still waiting for a sufficient outcome to whether passenger data disclosure aided the grounding of Ryanair flight FR4978 carrying journalist Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega.
Coalition Letter to the 48th U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on Pegasus
We call on U.N. Human Rights Council to take urgent action to denounce the human rights violations facilitated by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
Why you shouldn’t buy Facebook Ray-Ban smart glasses
Facebook’s new smart glasses threaten our rights, because they turn humans into surveillance cameras and put bystanders at risk.
Access Now to ECOWAS Court: overturn Nigeria’s Twitter ban
Access Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Open Net Association filed a legal intervention to the ECOWAS Court challenging the constitutionality of Nigeria’s Twitter ban.