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In response to a Senate hearing on privacy featuring predominantly industry voices, members of civil society and privacy experts are organizing a coordinated, real-time response to take place over Twitter.

State and local governments are arming us with legal protections against the harmful data practices that hurt human rights. We want to recognize and support that work.

A new CLOUD Act agreement without added protections risks letting U.K. law enforcement use its own vast authority to demand the data of users all over the world, without a check by U.S. courts.

The U.S. is currently in negotiations with the U.K. regarding a CLOUD Act data access agreement. Here’s what any new agreement should have to protect our rights.

These are the elements necessary to fully protect people, in the U.S. and elsewhere, in our increasingly connected world.

The United States is pulling out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This abdicates responsibility and will hurt human rights.

We’re asking Facebook some questions, and giving you some answers.

We’re asking the U.S. Congress to hold hearings on overbroad collection of personal information and the urgent need for data protection legislation to protect human rights.

The poorly drafted CLOUD Act doesn’t have adequate privacy protections for people in the U.S. or other countries. What do we do now?

Access Now released a new report that concludes that any policy mandating backdoors into encrypted products “would likely be effective for only a minimal time, would be substantially costly, and might harm security in general.”