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

On September 28, 2026, Access Now wrote to four pension funds — Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, Houston ...

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For activists, journalists, human rights defenders, and other members of civil society, cybersecurity is a concrete matter that relates to the real-world risks and threats we face as a consequence of ...

On Friday, December 8, just before midnight, the European Union’s co-legislative bodies reached a deal on the Artificial Intelligence Act, following three days of intense negotiations, and almost ...

Access Now is excited to announce the appointment of Alejandro Mayoral Baños as the organization’s new Executive Director. I am honored to be joining Access Now as Executive Director. Taking on this ...

The concept of digital public infrastructure (DPI) has increasingly taken center stage in debates around digitalization, digital transformation, and development. In the United Nations and other ...

We, the undersigned organizations and individual experts call on the state delegations participating in the concluding session of the United Nations (UN) Ad Hoc Committee to ensure that the proposed ...

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are ...

Digital innovation can make it easier for governments to spy on and control queer people’s intimacies, expressions, and existence — violating their human rights. In countries across Sub-Saharan Africa ...

We, the undersigned organizations, and members of the #KeepItOn coalition are alarmed at reports which indicate the province of Annobón in Equatorial Guinea has been cut off from the internet and ...

Most of us interact with some sort of Artificial Intelligence (AI) system several times a day, whether it’s using the predictive text function on our phones or applying a selfie filter on Instagram or ...