On September 28, 2026, Access Now wrote to four pension funds regarding their investment in AE Industrial Partners (AEI). AEI ...

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For activists, journalists, human rights defenders, and other members of civil society, cybersecurity is a concrete matter that relates to the real-world risks and threats we face as a consequence of ...

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We provide flexible and grantee-driven funding to grassroots and frontline organizations fighting for human rights in the digital age. We pursue this work at a time when civil society around the world ...

Earlier this month, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline began to get reports of hacked Facebook accounts that allowed us to identify a new method for targeted “phishing,” also known as “spear ...

1. What’s the difference between ordinary encryption and end-to-end encryption? Don’t they offer the same protection? No. End-to-end encryption (E2EE) offers a materially different level of privacy ...

Content note: The following post contains references to alleged murder and war crimes. The investigation began after Apple sent its first wave of notifications to their users in November 2021, warning ...

We, the undersigned organizations and members of the #KeepItOn coalition — a global network of over 300 human rights organizations from 105 countries working to end internet shutdowns — urge the ...

In the armed conflicts of today, shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common, deliberate, and systematic act of warfare. Across conflict zones, belligerent and warring parties attack ...

The concept of digital public infrastructure (DPI) has increasingly taken center stage in debates around digitalization, digital transformation, and development. In the United Nations and other ...