Access Now

We advocate for human rights in today’s digital world. In 2009, following the crackdown in Iran after the elections, a team of tech experts came together to ensure that people could access Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, and email without being monitored. This initiative eventually led to the formation of Access Now.

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Digital rights worldwide are being undermined by "black snakes"

Jan 16, 2025 | accessnow.org | Alejandro Baños

According to Indigenous prophecy, particularly the teachings of the Lakota and Dakota peoples of North America, it was foretold that a “black snake” would slither across the land, bringing destruction to the Indigenous people, their way of life, and the environment around them.
a rule-of-law checklist

Jan 7, 2025 | accessnow.org | Eliška Pírková |Aymen Zaghdoudi |Agneris Sampieri

Communications and search platforms like Facebook or Google have become crucial spaces for civic discourse and access to information. But they have also become powerful tools for commercial exploitation, political manipulation, silencing, and control.
IGF 2024: when digital rights collide with digital oppression

Dec 13, 2024 | accessnow.org

This event brings together Saudi activists, human rights organizations, and digital rights advocates to highlight the ethical concerns surrounding IGF 2024 and amplify the voices calling for the protection of human rights in digital spaces.
Lessons from the Arab region for UN cybercrime convention

Nov 27, 2024 | accessnow.org | Aymen Zaghdoudi

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 digital rights worldwide.
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Oct 24, 2024 | accessnow.org
Big Tech and the risk of genocide in Gaza

Oct 10, 2024 | accessnow.org | Marwa Fatafta

The war in Gaza is one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in recent history — creating a “hell on Earth.” In just over a year, more women and children have been killed by the Israeli military than in any other conflict over the past two decades. On average, 10 children a day lose one or both legs. More than 902 entire families have been obliterated; at least 17,000 children have been orphaned; and 90 percent of the population has been displaced, some as many as 10 times.
Access Now’s vision for an EU digital rights agenda

Oct 3, 2024 | accessnow.org

As the EU’s new 2024-2029 mandate begins, we invite EU policymakers to join us on our mission of defending and extending digital rights.
Digital surveillance at Europe’s borders

Oct 2, 2024 | accessnow.org | Caterina Rodelli

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 first-hand how and where surveillance technologies are deployed at Europe’s borders. In the third and final instalment of a three-part blog series, she explains how new migrant detention centres on the Greek island of Samos are shaping the blueprint for EU-wide mass surveillance. Catch up on parts one and two.
Digital surveillance at Europe’s borders

Sep 25, 2024 | accessnow.org | Caterina Rodelli

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 first-hand how and where surveillance technologies are deployed at Europe’s borders. In the second instalment of a three-part blog series, she explains how EU-funded research projects on border surveillance are legitimising violent migration policies. Catch up on part one here.