Blog Freedom of Expression Technology disruption: rights, risks, and rules Executive Director Brett Solomon addresses the United Nations on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… 10 December 2018
Blog Business and Human Rights Access Now calls on 22 major tech companies to account for their human rights practices We’re working with Ranking Digital Rights to make sure the companies tracked in the Corporate Accountability Index respond and take steps to protect your rights.… 17 September 2018
Blog Freedom of Expression Open letter to Google on plans to launch a censored search engine in China The coalition letter asks Google to break its silence on the “Dragonfly” project and explain how it plans to protect human rights.… 28 August 2018
Blog Business and Human Rights The Toronto Declaration: Protecting the rights to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018… 16 May 2018
Blog Freedom of Expression Digital Rights 102: Highlighting the issues affecting Canadians Technology is changing our relationship to privacy and other human rights. In the lead-up to RightsCon Toronto, we look at issues that Canadians are now facing.… 1 May 2018
Blog Privacy Defending the right to privacy globally: 8 key recommendations for the digital age Our submission to the United Nations on “the right to privacy in the digital age” details ways that governments can protect this fundamental right. … 25 April 2018
Blog Privacy DreamHost disrupts U.S. DOJ plan for mass spying. Others should do the same. The expansive U.S. order stands in contravention of our fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression. … 17 August 2017
Blog Privacy Five questions for Mr. Wray What does Wray — U.S. President Trump’s pick to succeed James Comey as head of the FBI — think of encryption, Section 702 surveillance reform, and transparency? … 11 July 2017
Press Releases Business and Human Rights Open NGO Letter to EU Member States and Institutions Regarding the Export of Surveillance Equipment EU-made electronic surveillance equipment is still exported to authoritarian countries. We strongly urge all EU member states to safeguard human rights.… 11 July 2017
Press Releases Digital Security “Tech Week” conversations must include human rights The White House is having talks about technology. We think human rights must be the center of those conversations.… 21 June 2017
Blog Business and Human Rights Internet shutdowns, gender, Net Neutrality, and more at the United Nations Your guide to the digital rights issues under discussion at the 35th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.… 6 June 2017
Blog Digital Security We need digital security for all the things — and privacy for all the people Last week we filed a legal complaint about an internet-connected sex toy. Here’s why.… 9 May 2017
