Tag: Business & Human Rights

After years of review, the EU Parliament finally adopted new export controls for dual use tools enabling surveillance and censorship. But it’s not enough.

Facebook released a long-overdue human rights policy outlining commitments across all of its products and services — but the policy’s impact largely depends on leadership’s yet-to-be-seen investment in its implementation.

Access Now joined a coalition of civil society organizations in calling on the Indian government and web firms to halt censorship and surveillance of critics speaking online in response to the #FarmersProtests.

Facebook has blocked an unknown number of civil society and news organisations’ accounts — including Access Now’s page — in Australia, a move the social media platform must rectify immediately.

Access Now joined over 40 civil society organizations in a letter to the Biden administration calling for a federal moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology.