Méabh Maguire

Jul 4, 2024 | accessnow.org | Eliška Pírková |Daniel Leufer |Méabh Maguire

If there’s one thing apparently on everyone’s mind in this “ultimate election year” — a year in which approximately half the world’s population will cast a ballot — it’s the topic of generative AI, and its potential to disrupt, dissuade, and distort the fundamental building blocks of democracy. From India to Italy, from the UK to the U.S., politicians, media, and civil society have been warning about the possible impact of AI-generated “fake news” in swaying voters’ opinions.

Feb 15, 2024 | accessnow.org | Eliška Pírková |Méabh Maguire

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Oct 16, 2023 | accessnow.org | Daniel Leufer |Méabh Maguire

Iris scanning. Voice recognition. Brain implants. Biometric technologies are no longer simply the stuff of science-fiction or spy movies; they are here and they are harming the most marginalized people.

Sep 18, 2023 | accessnow.org | Eliška Pírková |Méabh Maguire

It has been almost a year since the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) was adopted, but companies and policymakers are still deciding who has to follow which rules laid down by the law.

May 29, 2023 | accessnow.org | Brett Solomon |Marwa Fatafta |Méabh Maguire

Next month marks 14 years since a defining moment in the digital rights movement; the 2009 Iranian election. This was the event that showed just how important free and open access to the internet could be for allowing civil society to speak truth to power in moments of crisis, but also how authoritarian governments could, and would, wield an iron fist over the digital sphere in order to quash protest and silence dissent.