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Why COVID-19 vaccine "passports" threaten human rights - 30 avril 2021
As the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout gains momentum, governments from Bahrain to Denmark are clamoring to implement measures to help the world return to pre-virus normality. This includes exploring digital vaccine certificates — or COVID-19 vaccine “passports” — that would record and authenticate a person’s (...)
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Dear Spotify : don’t manipulate our emotions for profit - 26 avril 2021
UPDATE : On April 15, 2021, Spotify replied to Access Now’s letter. In its response, Spotify states that the company “has never implemented the technology described in the patent in any of our products and we have no plans to do so.” While Access Now is pleased to hear that Spotify has no current plans to deploy the (...)
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President of Mexico should veto the biometric mobile phone registry - 16 avril 2021
Collecting personal biometric data in exchange for a mobile SIM card is unnecessary and dangerous. Yet, this is the stark reality the Mexican Chamber of Senators has set in motion after voting yesterday, April 13, in favor of establishing a National Register of Mobile Phone Users. Access Now and Red en Defensa de (...)
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Ban Automated Recognition of Gender and Sexual Orientation - 7 avril 2021
Automated recognition of gender and sexual orientation is scientifically flawed and puts LGBT+ lives at risk. The European Union has the opportunity to ban this technology and prevent such tools from being exported around the world.
A growing number of governments and companies use artificial intelligence (AI) (...)
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Government orders internet shutdown in Delhi on India’s Republic Day - 26 janvier 2021
India’s Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders directing internet shutdowns across several areas of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi today, January 26, the nation’s Republic Day.
Reports of disrupted internet and telecom connectivity emerged earlier today as the Delhi Police clashed with (...)
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Human rights organizations respond to NSO : victims’ voices will not be silenced - 8 janvier 2021
Today, January 7, Access Now, along with seven other human rights organizations, filed a reply to NSO Group’s opposition to the coalition’s amicus brief in the case of WhatsApp v. NSO in the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court. In their opposition, NSO argued that the court should reject the brief on the grounds that it (...)
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NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda - 19 décembre 2020
Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products (...)
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Iran internet shutdowns : human rights consequences - 4 décembre 2020
Iranians may soon lose their capacity to access global internet services just when they need it most : during protests when security forces violently crack down on demonstrators, and they need to broadcast the events to help their fellow citizens and alert the international media and human rights organizations. (...)
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Security for All - 11 novembre 2020
An open letter to the leaders of the world’s governments SIGNED by organizations, companies, and individuals :
We encourage you to support the safety and security of users, companies, and governments by strengthening the integrity of communications and systems. In doing so, governments should reject laws, (...)
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Future EU-US data transfers ? EU must push back on the US’s surveillance game - 2 octobre 2020
Brussels & Washington DC — Access Now and the American Civil Liberties Union are calling on the European Commission to press the United States to reform its surveillance laws, so that any future instrument for EU-US data transfers complies with EU law and withstands judicial scrutiny.
The groups are set to (...)
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Human rights groups ask U.N. to intervene in U.S. crackdown on racial justice protesters - 11 septembre 2020
This week, Access Now and the USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) – with the support of the international law firm Foley Hoag LLP (on behalf of Access Now) – submitted an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and of (...)
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Facial recognition on trial : emotion and gender “detection” under scrutiny in a court case in Brazil - 3 juillet 2020
We are seeing AI-powered facial recognition systems deployed in increasingly sensitive environments around the world, and often without people’s knowledge or consent. It is critical to ensure these systems do not facilitate human rights violations, in particular of people and communities who are already at risk. (...)
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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare - 27 juin 2020
At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift (...)
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Les Applications de traçage numérique pour la lutte contre le COVID-19 dans la région MENA : un cauchemar pour les données personnelles - 27 juin 2020
En réponse à la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, un certain nombre de pays de la région MENA ont fait appel à la technologie dans le but de détecter et limiter la propagation du virus, que ce soit avec applications, des drones, ou des robots pour suivre le mouvement des citoyens en quarantaine. Maintenant que les pays (...)
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Human rights organizations call on Egyptian authorities to cease restrictions on internet freedoms and digital rights - 24 mai 2020
Following the rise in the number of patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Egyptian authorities have taken significant, large-scale measures in order to limit the spread of the virus. These include imposing a curfew on citizens for a specified number of hours, the full and temporary closure of some (...)
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#KeepItOn : Burundi silences the majority on election day - 24 mai 2020
As millions of Burundians head to the polls to elect their next president today, May 20, 2020, the Pierre Nkurunziza government has rushed to block access to social media including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube. This blatant denial of the rights to access information and freedom of expression casts a (...)
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It’s not the first time Iran has shut down the internet, but this time, it’s different - 24 novembre 2019
A rushed decision by the Iranian government to raise fuel prices by 50%, after years of political and economic instability and threats to human rights, has forced Iranians across the country into the streets to demand change. According to Amnesty International, at least a dozen protesters have been killed, many (...)
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New report shows 100+ members of civil society targeted as NSO Group continues to evade scrutiny - 1er novembre 2019
In May this year, we published an article detailing a WhatsApp breach where the secure messaging app was found to be vulnerable to a specific type of attack by malicious actors. Today, on the back of a lengthy investigation by WhatsApp and our friends at Citizen Lab, we are finally learning more about who the (...)
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United Nations : protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul - 25 octobre 2019
Automating benefits, services threatens welfare rights, privacy
(New York, October 17, 2019) "“ Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights (...)
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No summer break for free expression in Europe : Facebook cases that matter for human rights - 4 octobre 2019
The summer of 2019 was an intense period for the right to freedom of expression and information in Europe. Besides regulatory pressure on tech companies by governments and global policy initiatives such as the Christchurch Call, European courts issued multiple opinions and judgments. In this blog post, we draw (...)
