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We urge Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon shareholders to support greater accountability for the companies’ human rights impacts.

On Human Rights Day of 2020, we highlight the mandate of E. Tendayi Achiume, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to fight systematic racism.

As the European Union finalises new digital-era laws, its legacy of world-leading privacy and data protection is at stake. The European Commission will kick off the introduction of landmark legislative proposals that have implications for the future of the General Data Protection Regulation and the rights this flagship law protects.

The U.S. Congress must act to protect the privacy and civil rights of users amidst the deployment of COVID-19 response technologies across the country.

Only 10 of the 24 companies publicly responded to Access Now’s open letters asking for improvement in one key area based on each company’s evaluation results of the Ranking Digital Rights Index.

Despite widespread reporting that two recent rulings on the “right to be forgotten” represent a victory for Google and free expression, concerns remain about human rights and the power of private companies to decide how content is discovered online.

Access Now sent letters to each of the companies in the RDR Corporate Accountability Index, urging them to review their performance and provide a public response to the findings.

For the data protection regulation to reach its full potential in protecting our rights, we need to move from the implementation to the enforcement stage.

Access Now joins a global coalition calling on Google to drop development of censored search services in China.