Tag: mass surveillance

As the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout gains momentum, governments 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”. Current proposals, however, threaten human rights.

Sign this European Citizens’ Initiative to urge EU lawmakers to put a stop to harmful, discriminatory biometric mass surveillance practices.

Artificial intelligence and automated decision-making systems threaten our fundamental rights. Yet the EU is considering an approach to AI regulation that would substitute rights-based protections for a mere risk mitigation exercise by corporations with a vested interest in these systems. Here’s why that’s a grave mistake.

As the U.S. braces for one of its most contentious elections, online tensions are running high. To ensure that you can exercise your rights safely, we’ve compiled some digital security tips with you in mind.

Access Now and European Digital Rights explain why we need a bold, bright-line approach to regulating AI — not more AI ethics guidelines and soft law — to protect our fundamental rights.

When member states fail to protect human rights — such as by cutting off internet access in the middle of a global pandemic — we leverage the UPR process to call attention to that failure and press for change.

Our submission to the United Nations on “the right to privacy in the digital age” details ways that governments can protect this fundamental right.