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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.”

This bill would give law enforcement around the globe — particularly in the U.S. — more access to users’ private data without sufficient privacy protections.

Repealing the rules would make the U.S. a global outlier on innovation and free expression.

We urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to withdraw its proposal and publicly review the reach and efficacy of its social media monitoring programs generally.