On September 28, 2026, Access Now wrote to four pension funds regarding their investment in AE Industrial Partners (AEI). AEI ...

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Earlier this month, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline began to get reports of hacked Facebook accounts that allowed us to identify a new method for targeted “phishing,” also known as “spear ...

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 ...

Internet shutdowns are unacceptable and a blatant violation of human rights, whether authorities implement them routinely during ongoing conflict, protests, exams, or elections, or as a knee-jerk ...

Content note: the following post contains references to violence, sexual assault, war crimes, and torture. Not a single day of 2025 passed without at least one internet shutdown. Last year, people ...

Content note: the following post contains references to violence, war crimes, and torture. Not a single day of 2025 passed without at least one internet shutdown. Last year, people across the world ...

The draft bill has been years in the making. The Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (formerly known as the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology) first introduced it in ...