Tag: Business & Human Rights
Access Now at the 2020 Internet Governance Forum: “Internet for human resilience and solidarity”
Here’s where you find Access Now staff at the Internet Governance Forum 2020, which focuses on strategies for using the internet to increase human resilience and solidarity.
Shutdowns in Belarus: Austrian telco must denounce actions and commit to accountability
Austrian-owned A1 Telekom Austria Group must acknowledge its role in election-related internet shutdowns in Belarus, maintain free and open internet, and resist and denounce any and all future orders by the Alyaksandr Lukashenka government to interfere with internet access.
Major Russian tech company releases first transparency report
Access Now applauds Yandex for being the first major tech company in Russia to release a transparency report.
U.S. FCC continues to pretend its net neutrality repeal is harmless
The U.S. FCC will vote on an order upholding its rights-harming decision to repeal net neutrality protections.
#KeepItOn: ensure democracy during elections
For democracy to flourish, access to free and open internet is vital, especially throughout elections — and several are scheduled over the next few months.
From Palestine to China, Zoom has no business censoring dissent
No impunity for American companies committing rights violations, says civil society to U.S. Supreme Court
Access Now joined civil society organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hold American companies liable for human rights violations committed abroad via the Alien Tort Statute.
Facebook touts free speech. In Vietnam, it’s aiding in censorship
Why do so few businesses see financial gains from using A.I.?
Attention EU regulators: we need more than AI “ethics” to keep us safe
Access Now and European Digital Rights explain why we need a bold, bright-line approach to regulating AI — not more AI ethics guidelines and soft law — to protect our fundamental rights.