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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Together with more than 100 organizations around the world in our #KeepItOn campaign, Access Now is fighting to keep internet shutdowns from becoming the new norm. Today, we’re participating in a talk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Toronto Declaration: Protecting the rights to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems was launched on May 16, 2018 at RightsCon Toronto. The preamble of the Declaration can be ...

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 organisations and individuals, urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the deletion of the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems that is proposed ...

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 ...