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

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We provide flexible and grantee-driven funding to grassroots and frontline organizations fighting for human rights in the digital age. We pursue this work at a time when civil society around the world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...