Update: April 28, 2021 — Amid reports of restored fiber and cable internet access in Myanmar, Access Now continues to call for full restoration of internet access for all people. We oppose the junta “white listing” internet connectivity, which will only exacerbate inequality amidst a human rights crisis.…
3 May 2021
Access Now, CPJ, EFF, and digital security experts Ron Deibert and Christopher Parsons are calling on California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to look into the activities of Sandvine and its owners Francisco Partners for potential legal violations arising out of their contracts with Belarus.…
23 September 2020
The letter calls on the Commission to enact strong uniform rules across the Union so that surveillance vendors are prevented from “licence shopping” among the states with weaker implementation of current export controls rules.…
9 June 2020
Brussels, BE — EU member states must back proposed curbs on the export of surveillance equipment to abusive regimes, Access Now, Amnesty International, and Reporters Without Borders said, after leaked documents published by digital rights reporters at netzpolitik.org and…
29 October 2018
Brussels, BE — European Parliament’s (EP) vote tomorrow could stop the export of dangerous surveillance equipment to rights-abusing governments, according to a coalition of international NGOs. The vote, on European Union’s (EU) export control regime for dual-use items, which have…
16 January 2018
On 23 November 2017 the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA) voted to implement stronger rules for “dual-use” technology exports from the European Union to third countries under the “EU dual-use recast”. Now, the European Parliament’s plenary will have to…
8 December 2017
Brussels, BE — Yesterday, the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) adopted a strong position on the EU dual-use recast. This develops on the European Commission proposal presented on 28 September 2016. Whereas the EU Commission proposal was deeply…
24 November 2017
Brussels, BE — Today, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development will decide whether to revoke the currently suspended export licence to Area, a company under review for supply of surveillance technologies to Syrian intelligence. Access Now and a coalition of…
27 June 2017
Image source: Alec Perkins In September the EU Commission published its draft proposal for an improved export controls regime, seeking to modernise and simplify the existing system to limit the spread of technology for online surveillance. This “dual-use” technology has…
12 December 2016