Tag: United States

Access Now and Digital Rights Watch call on Facebook to resist “Five Eyes” government over-reach and breach of basic human rights and ensure their users private communications and the best possible security online.

Leading thinkers in law, technology, and policy will gather this week in Washington, D.C. to discuss how to protect privacy in the digital age.

State and local governments are arming us with legal protections against the harmful data practices that hurt human rights. We want to recognize and support that work.

The revelation that Facebook gave tech giants even more access to people’s data than it has disclosed to the public or members of the U.S. Congress shows (yet again) the necessity of comprehensive federal privacy laws in the U.S.

We explain why the time may be ripe for a federal data privacy law, and why that means that the users should engage in the debate.

We’ve submitted comments to the U.S. agency NTIA to help guide its international agenda for the internet. Here’s how and why.

Can you be deported for a tweet? Maybe soon. The U.S. government needs to know what you think! Weigh in by taking our short survey.

Without federal standards, our access to redress for data breaches is hit-or-miss.

Your guide to what’s happening in the U.S. battle to save Net Neutrality, the principles that keep the internet open and free.

Access Now released a new report that concludes that any policy mandating backdoors into encrypted products “would likely be effective for only a minimal time, would be substantially costly, and might harm security in general.”