For years, Access Now and civil society have raised the alarm over Telenor’s hasty and irresponsible departure from Myanmar and the potential human rights abuses should Telenor sell its Myanmar ...

Welcoming remarks: Irina Schoulgin-Nyoni, Ambassador for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden Moderator: Alejandro Mayoral Baños, Co-Executive Director, ...

Access Now’s Legal team provides internal expertise on legal compliance and operations, in addition to engaging externally on programmatic legal issues through convenings, research, and interventions.

A critical tool for fighting against an Orwellian future’ — Why users of this encrypted messaging app are helping keep the project alive ...

Hoy, 31 de marzo de 2026, publicamos el nuevo reporte de Access Now y la coalición #KeepItOn, (Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025). El mismo revela al menos 313 ...

Next month, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) looks set to adopt a new convention on cybercrime; despite myriad warnings from civil society that, as it stands, the convention poses serious threats to ...

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 ...

During times of political unrest, the streets become dangerous, and information spreads mostly online. Without internet access, I have no way to stay informed about what’s happening. This isolation ...

In 2025, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented 313 shutdowns in 52 countries, surpassing the appalling records from 2024 (304) and 2023 (289). Seven new countries joined the offender list ...

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 ...

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 ...