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 Saudi Arabia, expressing yourself online is extremely dangerous. Numerous bloggers, dissidents, and women’s rights defenders have faced unjust prosecution, harsh prison sentences, and travel bans ...

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 ...

Read in Spanish / Leer en español. We, the undersigned organizations and members of the global human rights community, urgently call for unfettered access to the internet, social media platforms, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iris scanning. Voice recognition. Brain implants. Biometric technologies are no longer simply the stuff of science-fiction or spy movies; they are here and they are harming the most marginalized ...

In 2023, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented 283 shutdowns in 39 countries. These are staggering results, marking the highest number of shutdown incidents in a single year since we began ...

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 ...