Tag: Business & Human Rights
Own an Echo? Amazon may be helping itself to your bandwidth
Tell Facebook: Stop Silencing Palestine
Access Now and our partners have received hundreds of reports that social platforms — most notably Facebook and Instagram — are suppressing Palestinian protest hashtags, blocking livestreams, and removing posts and accounts. This has to stop. Now.
Global civil society coalition calls on Facebook to #StopSilencingPalestine
Access Now has joined 16 organizations and more than 50 artists, journalists, and human rights defenders to launch the #StopSilencingPalestine campaign to demand an end to Facebook’s censorship of Palestinian voices.
Amazon Sidewalk will crowdsource your WiFi. Here’s what to know.
RightsCon checklist: 15 ways to save the internet and protect democracy
Speaking at a panel discussion at RightsCon, Access Now’s Brett Solomon outlined 15 things governments can do to make sure technology is used to defend — not destroy— democracy and human rights. Read the checklist and watch the full session on YouTube.
New Middle East and North Africa Coalition to Combat Digital Surveillance
The new MENA Coalition to Combat Digital Surveillance has come together to end the sale of digital surveillance tools to repressive governments in the region, fight for a safe and open internet, and protect human rights defenders, journalists, and internet users.
إعلان تأسيس تحالف الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا لمكافحة المراقبة الإلكترونية
Reflecting on ten years of RightsCon
Our Executive Director Brett Solomon’s welcome message to the community at the Opening Ceremony of RightsCon 2021.
Strengthening civil society’s defenses: Digital Security Helpline hits 10,000 cases
The Digital Security Helpline is a lifeline that supports at-risk groups and individuals from civil society. Read “Strengthening civil society’s defenses: what Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has learned from its first 10,000 cases.”
Ban biometric surveillance: civil society demands outright prohibitions on public and private use
Ban biometric surveillance! Access Now and over 150 civil society actors across the globe are calling for a ban on biometric surveillance.