Access Now Brussels Office

The EU is launching the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. These two key pieces of legislation will impact the future of digital policies and rights online, specifically in relation to online platforms and competition, including the regulation of online advertising.

Access Now has put forward concrete policy objectives for European Union lawmakers in the areas of data protection, content governance,  artificial intelligence, surveillance, and connectivity.

The ongoing work on this topic signals both an awareness of the issues to be addressed and a commitment to address them. We hope to see regulatory initiatives turn “Trustworthy AI” into more than a slogan.

Our EU policy team participated in this year’s Privacy Camp and the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels, Belgium. Here’s a guide to our activities.

No matter what new technology is deployed, the EU and its member states must implement and uphold the GDPR.

For the data protection regulation to reach its full potential in protecting our rights, we need to move from the implementation to the enforcement stage.

Access Now’s Brussels team is hosting this year’s RightsCon on March 29-31, 2017, so we thought it would be nice to introduce them to you!

In the TTIP and CETA trade negotiations in Europe, transparency is the key to legitimacy and accountability.