Washington D.C.— The U.S. House Rules Committee announced that it will convene on Tuesday, January 9th to advance a bill to extend and expand the invasive surveillance authority granted in Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. Access Now condemns…
8 January 2018
Negotiators in the European Union and the United States have agreed on a stop-gap measure to allow companies to transfer private data overseas. But the “EU-US Privacy Shield” is not likely to withstand legal challenge. To protect privacy, we need reform, not rebranding.…
4 February 2016
Your rights are violated by mass surveillance conducted by the United States and other governments. But changing U.S. mass surveillance practices is hard — especially if you’re not a U.S. citizen. It’s hard even to challenge these abuses because most…
5 November 2015
Tomorrow, the EU Court of Justice will determine whether the national Data Protection authority can conduct an independent assessment of a decision in the so-called Schrems case, which deals with Facebook’s transfer of user data between its subsidiary in Ireland and the parent company in the United States. …
5 October 2015