Indefinite internet shutdowns are increasing each year as perpetrators seek to keep entire populations permanently ...

Digital identification systems are more dangerous than you think. They can undermine people’s privacy, increase surveillance, and push the most vulnerable among us further to the margins. We challenge ...

This toolkit aims to help digital rights activists working on digital identification systems to navigate the complexities of the topic in an easier way, as well as to provide them with language that ...

In the armed conflicts of today, shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common, deliberate, and systematic act of warfare. Across conflict zones, belligerent and warring parties attack ...

1. What’s the difference between ordinary encryption and end-to-end encryption? Don’t they offer the same protection? No. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) offers a materially different level of privacy ...

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) will regulate the development and use of ‘high-risk’ AI, and aims to promote the uptake of ‘trustworthy AI’ whilst protecting the rights of ...

In May 2024, Access Now’s Caterina Rodelli travelled across Greece to meet with local civil society organisations supporting migrant people and monitoring human rights violations, and to see ...

Ten years ago, there were no strong global norms condemning internet shutdowns. The groups fighting shutdowns were only loosely connected, and the lack of coordination made it difficult to get a ...

Companies like NSO Group facilitate human rights abuses — it is time they are held accountable for how their invasive spyware like Pegasus is used. Access Now supports a civil lawsuit filed today in ...

As I prepare to leave Access Now after serving 15 years as its Executive Director and co-founder, I have taken this moment to reflect on my personal learnings and observations on the evolving fight to ...

Securing your online accounts is the first line of defense against many online attacks. Someone may seek to access your accounts to find out personal details about you, learn more about your ...

The European Union is in the process of adopting its Digital Services Act (DSA), a law that will govern how content can be shared and viewed online. But this landmark legislation won’t help secure our ...