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Global Civil Society Coalition Calls On Facebook To #StopSilencingPalestine
Friday, 11 June 2021, 6:29 am | Access Now
As Palestinians have taken to social media to campaign against forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and live-stream police brutality and crackdown on peaceful protestors,hundreds of users have noticed their content suddenly disappear, or had their posts flagged ... More >>
U.N. Joint Statement: Experts Call For Centering Digital Rights In Pandemic Recovery On Eve Of RightsCon 2021
Tuesday, 8 June 2021, 5:39 am | Access Now
Access Now welcomes a timely new statement from U.N. Special Procedures emphasizing that digital rights are “a top priority” to rebuild civic space amid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The nine experts are taking part in RightsCon 2021 (June ... More >>
Ban Biometric Surveillance: Civil Society Demands Outright Prohibitions On Public And Private Use
Monday, 7 June 2021, 4:25 pm | Access Now
Today, June 7, Access Now and over 175 civil society organizations, activists, and researchers from across the globe are calling for a ban on uses of facial recognition and remote biometric recognition that enable mass and discriminatory targeted surveillance. ... More >>
Blocking Access To Twitter In Nigeria Is A Flagrant Violation Of Fundamental Rights
Sunday, 6 June 2021, 1:25 pm | Access Now
Access Now deplores the government of Nigeria’s suspension of Twitter operations in the country, and demands all services be fully reinstated for all. Authorities implemented the shutdown today, June 5, citing “persistent use of the platform ... More >>
Saudi’s Human Rights Track Record Says It All: Google Must Halt Plans To Open Cloud In Kingdom
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 6:05 am | Access Now
People in Saudi Arabia have the right to protect their personal data and information from the prying eyes of the government. Against a backdrop of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing human rights abuses , citizens are now facing further human rights risks with Google’s ... More >>
GDPR: Three Years In, And Its Future And Success Are Still Up In The Air
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 4:57 pm | Access Now
Brussels, BE —The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not living up to the hype. When first implemented in 2018, the GDPR was presented as the new world standard for privacy and data protection. The law has increased data protection More >>
Why We Need Data Minimization Safeguards Now (And How To Do It)
Friday, 21 May 2021, 5:48 am | Access Now
Online entities have largely been allowed to collect any data they want about any person and use it for any purpose, so long as they are transparent about those practices. These practices, however, can cause extensive harm to people, including data-driven ... More >>
Mauritius Must Backflip On Dangerous ICT Act Consultation Paper, Place Human Rights At Its Core
Thursday, 13 May 2021, 5:53 am | Access Now
Access Now and a coalition of international organizations are calling on authorities in Mauritius to review the proposed amendments in the Information and Communication Technologies Act for regulating the use and addressing the abuse and misuse of Social ... More >>
Facebook Oversight Board: No Place For Trump’s Hate And Disinformation On Its Platforms
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 6:01 am | Access Now
Brussels, Belgium —Today, May 5, 2021, the Facebook Oversight Board upheld the ‘deplatforming’ of Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram, finding Facebook’s decision to be necessary and proportionate. Access Now welcomes this decision, but ... More >>
Spotify, Don’t Spy: Global Coalition Of 180+ Musicians And Human Rights Groups Take A Stand
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 5:42 am | Access Now
May 4, 2021 — Today, Access Now, Fight for the Future, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, and a coalition of over 180 musicians and human rights organizations from around the world sent a letter to Spotify calling on the company to make a public ... More >>
Rights Groups To NSO: Actions Speak Louder Than Words In Human Rights Compliance
Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 5:56 am | Access Now
Access Now is calling out claims by NSO Group of compliance to human rights standards through an open letter published today, 27 April, 2021 , in coalition with Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, and other human rights groups. The ... More >>
Protocol For Exclusion: Why Covid-19 Vaccine "Passports" Threaten Human Rights
Saturday, 24 April 2021, 5:28 am | Access Now
As the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout gains momentum, governments from Bahrain to Denmark are clamoring to implement measures to help the world return to pre-virus normality. This includes exploring digital vaccine certificates — or COVID-19 vaccine ... More >>
EU Takes Minimal Steps To Regulate Harmful AI Systems, Must Go Further To Protect Rights
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 5:56 am | Access Now
Today, April 21, the European Commission launched its Proposal for a Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence . Access Now has been advocating for a human rights-based regulation to ensure that both the private and public sector ... More >>
Iris Scanning Of Refugees Is Disproportionate And Dangerous — What's Happening Behind IrisGuard's Closed Doors?
Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 6:25 am | Access Now
Refugees should not be required to hand over personal biometric data in exchange for basic needs such as purchasing food, or accessing money. However, iris scan technology supplied by UK-registered company, IrisGuard, is reportedly being used by the World ... More >>
New EU Dual Use Export Control Rules Finally Adopted, But Leave A Lot Of Room For Improvement
Friday, 26 March 2021, 9:25 am | Access Now
Today, March 25 , a decade after the EU first began soliciting views on export controls around dual use technologies — or tools that can have some peaceful aims but that can also be used to violate human rights — the EU Parliament has ... More >>
Looking Tough, But Hampering Rights: Civil Society Organisations Say No To Online Terrorism Regulation
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:17 am | Access Now
Access Now, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Civil Liberties Union for Europe, and 58 other civil society organisations are urgently calling on Members of the European Parliament to reject the proposed Terrorism Regulation on preventing the dissemination ... More >>
Civil Society Speaks Out On Jamaica’s Dubious New Digital ID Bill
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 8:07 am | Access Now
Access Now and a coalition of 12 local and international organizations are calling on authorities in Jamaica to ensure human rights are at the center of a controversial new digital ID bill. Through a comprehensive submission to the Joint Select Committee ... More >>
After Nearly Two Decades In The Dark, Facebook Releases Its Human Rights Policy
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 10:41 am | Access Now
Facebook today released a Corporate Human Rights Policy for the first time in its 17-year history, becoming the latest Big Tech company to publicly articulate its commitments to upholding human rights. While Access Now is encouraged by Facebook’s ... More >>
#KeepItOn Report: Internet Shutdowns Shatter Dreams, Endanger Lives
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:26 am | Access Now
From Belarus to Bangladesh, authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020 . On a day-to-day basis, this prevented millions of people from working, studying, and communicating to their full potential. ... More >>
Reclaim Your Face: A Call For European Citizens To Demand Facial Recognition Ban
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 7:17 am | Access Now
Access Now, EDRi, and the Reclaim Your Face coalition are calling for a Europe-wide ban on the use of dangerous facial recognition technologies that perpetuate discrimination, erode privacy, and enable biometric mass surveillance. Today, February 17 , the coalition ... More >>
