#accessnow — Public Fediverse posts
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A joint statement against military uses of AI, written by Access Now and Amnesty International. Sign ons remain open until June 22, 2026.
press release:
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-on-ai-in-warfare/the paper to Sign:
https://www.accessnow.org/sign-on-form-for-statement-on-military-uses-of-ai/#accessnow #amnestyinternational #AI #military #pressrelease
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#Microsoft still hasn't published the findings of a review on how mass surveillance and targeting of people in #Palestine by #Israel are based on Microsoft #Azure cloud services.
A follow-up open letter by @7amleh, #AccessNow, #AmnestyInternational, @eff and @fight:
»We were made aware that the law firm retained by #Microsoft has already completed its review. Yet, Microsoft has neither released its findings as publicly promised nor responded to our earlier inquiries regarding the steps it has taken — or intends to take — to halt and prevent its contribution to international law violations perpetrated by the Israeli government and its military in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).«
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Interventionism doesn't necessarily mean military action. Sometimes it can be a vassal state situation, whereby the true holder of power gets to veto the peoples rights to organize and congregate.
That #Taiwanese were in attendance means nothing. The fact that a foreign nation state actor got to decide how #Zambian people congregate means everything.
Advocacy group #AccessNow says major human rights conference was canceled after Chinese pressure on #Zambia
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/advocacy-group-access-now-says-major-human-rights-conference-was-canceled-after-2026-05-01/ -
The #Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital #Rights Conference Canceled
#AccessNow , the group that organizes #RightsCon , says #Zambian officials asked it to exclude #Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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#AccessNow has now publicly confirmed that they also believe the Chinese government pressured #Zambia into censoring #RightsCon 2026 because of participants from #Taiwan.
The statement of what happened is a testament of how strong the influence of authoritarians has become and how the global #DigitalRights community is a target.
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#China Pressure Canceled World’s Largest Digital #HumanRights Conference
The #Chinese government pressured #Zambia to cancel #RightsCon , the world’s largest digital human #rights conference, at the last minute, accordingto the conference’s organizers. #Beijing was upset that the speaker’s list included prominent figures from #Taiwanese civil society, #AccessNow , the group that organizes RightsCon, wrote Friday.
#privacy #securityhttps://www.404media.co/china-pressure-canceled-worlds-largest-digital-human-rights-conference/
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Die Digital- und Menschenrechte Konferenz #RightsCon bringt jedes Jahr an wechselnden Orten tausende Menschen aus der ganzen Welt zusammen,. Dieses Jahr sollte Sambia dran sein. Doch die Regierung dort hat die Konferenz jetzt wenige Tage vor Beginn untersagt.
Diese Entwicklung ist auch ein Ausdruck der immer stärker werdenden Angriffe auf Zivilgesellschaft. Volle Solidarität mit allen Betroffenen und insbesondere den Organisator*innen bei #AccessNow.
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RightsCon, one of the most important conferences world-wide at the intersection of human rights and technology, has been "postponed" by the government of #Zambia, only days before it was to begin.
The conference was preparing for 5,000+ participants, about 3,000 of them in-person. Many of them have already begun their travel.
Beyond the suppression of a conference under flimsy pretenses, there will also be a considerable financial impact on its organizers at #AccessNow @noybeu, an international not-for-profit organization.
If you can afford to support them to cope with the damage done, consider a donation at
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Now it's official: #RightsCon 2026 has been censored and cancelled by the government of #Zambia.
This is a loss for the global #DigitalRights community, a bigger one for #AccessNow, and maybe the biggest for #Zambia and the entire region, as future human rights events will think twice before setting foot there. 😪
What a needless waste.
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This is absolutely wild: The #Zambia government has just cancelled the world's most important digital rights conference #RightsCon 2026 which was supposed to start next week in #Lusaka. 3,000+ participants are now hanging in limbo (myself included), some already traveled to the country.
I feel for the folks at #AccessNow who have been working so hard on this for months.
https://www.facebook.com/100069038505521/posts/1285179577126647/
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La #Zambie censure la conférence #RightsCon organisée par #AccessNow à quelques jours du rassemblement de 3000 personnes https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1285179577126647&id=100069038505521
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@accessnow published a report containing a list of 450+ companies that, over the past years, have pitched their tech solutions to Frontex, Europol and eu-LISA. This report includes details of the more than 600 product(s) or service(s) on display.
https://www.accessnow.org/companies-powering-eu-war-on-migrants/
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#DSA #HumanRights Alliance Publishes Principles Calling for DSA Enforcement to Incorporate Global Perspectives
The #DigitalServicesAct (DSA) #HumanRightsAlliance has, since its founding by #EFF & #AccessNow in 2021, works to ensure that the #EuropeanUnion follows a human rights-based approach to platform governance by integrating a wide range of voices & perspectives to contextualise DSA enforcement and examining the DSA’s effect on tech regulations around the world.
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Meet the team that investigates when #journalists and #activists get hacked with government #spyware
In the last few years, in the fight to protect these higher-risk communities, a team of a dozen digital security experts, mostly based in Costa Rica, Manila, and Tunisia, among other places, have played a key role. They work for the New York-headquartered nonprofit #AccessNow, specifically its Digital Security Helpline https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/meet-the-team-that-investigates-when-journalists-and-activists-get-hacked-with-government-spyware/ -
Kazakhstan bans so-called LGBTQ+ propaganda
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/kazakhstan-bans-lgbtq-propaganda
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#AccessNow’s #DigitalSecurity #Helpline, a team of digital #securityexperts, investigates cases of #journalists and #activists being hacked with #government #spyware. The helpline, which receives around 1,000 cases annually, provides 24/7 support, helping victims understand the threat and take appropriate action. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/meet-the-team-that-investigates-when-journalists-and-activists-get-hacked-with-government-spyware/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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5. Law enforcement agencies and the #military seem to be respected and trusted partners at the #Disinfo2025 conference, which is co-sponsored by defence tech firms. The level of collaboration and mutual platforming is not something I've ever seen in the #DigitalRights field.
6. With the notable exception of today's last panel with #AccessNow's @epirkova, I have heard hardly anyone discussing impacts on #FreeExpression and Access to Information rights or other human rights such as #privacy.
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Rapport de #accessnow sur la censure d'internet : https://www.accessnow.org/internet-shutdowns-2024/
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👉 Правозахисна організація Access Now надсилає запрошення відвідати найбільшу конференцію з цифрових прав - RightsCon
Мейл має заголовок: Your last chance to join us in Taipei!
Думаю, ну так, може й це останній шанс побувати в Тайвані поки Китай не рейданув острів
З України туди точно хтось поїде, але переважно ті, хто закордоном чи жінки)
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#Apple sends #spyware victims to this nonprofit #security lab | TechCrunch
#privacy #accessnowhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/why-apple-sends-spyware-victims-to-this-nonprofit-security-lab/
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“In what world can an organisation seriously think it is all right to run a prominent cancer event, bringing together world experts, while also taking sponsorship from a company whose product has caused millions of cancer deaths worldwide? Absolutely shocking.”
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I know the answer to this one: in the tech world!
#AccessNow #RightsCon #CPDP #NordicPrivacyArena #FOSDEM #etc #privacyWashing #tech #humanRights #institutionalCorruption
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✅ Ймовірно найбільш впливова у світі організація в сфері цифрових прав #AccessNow опублікувала заяву щодо Дурова.
Ще пару років тому це могли б бути безапеляційні вимоги в стилі "Свободу Анджелі Девіс!". Однак, ні.
Access Now відкрито каже про проблеми #telegram як-то повна відсутність наскрізного шифрування, за які давно критикувала Telegram (переклад з дипломатичної: ну ви й уйобки, оскільки ніколи не хотіли захистити користувачів)
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Breton: stop politicising the Digital Services Act
PUBLISHED: 19 AUG2024#accessnow #article19 and Electronic Frontier Foundation (#EFF ) are calling on the EU Commissioner Thierry Breton to stop politicising the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (#DSA). The joint civil society statement is in response to Commissioner Breton’s recent letter to X on the far-right riots in the UK and the live-streamed conversation between the U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk.
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#Journalisten und #Aktivisten aus #Russland und #Belarus, die ins EU-Exil gegangen sind, wurden über Jahre hinweg mit der #Pegasus-Spyware des israelischen Herstellers #NSO angegriffen. Eine Untersuchung von #AccessNow und dem #CitizenLab entdeckte Angriffe auf mindestens acht Personen, darunter die russische Journalistin #GalinaTimchenko. Die meisten Betroffenen leben im #Baltikum oder in #Warschau.
#Pegasus #Cyberangriffe #Journalismus #Menschenrechte #Cybersecurity
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Don't say people talking about #privacy as a "Human Right" at a conference sponsored by Meta, Google, and Amazon are hypocritical, say they are practical masterminds using those dummies' money to say *exactly* what they want, and really change things! #RightsCon #Accessnow
Go get 'em, guys!
(I'd tag Accessnow with this encouragement too, but they're only on X/Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Youtube).
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Growing up with a #disability and now working as an #accessibility consultant, I notice these types of barriers all the time. For me, and for the estimated 27% of #Canadians who also have
a disability that affects their day-to-day activities (a number that #StatisticsCanada expects to increase as the baby boomers age), automatic door openers are just the tip of the iceberg.In 2019, the federal government passed the #AccessibleCanadaAct (ACA), which aims to make #Canada fully #accessible by 2040. Despite this perception that the proverbial needle of accessibility is moving forward, Canada isn’t as accessible as it thinks it is. Many bars and restaurants still lack accessible washrooms; Braille menus and signage are still uncommon; obstacles make it hard for wheelchair users to navigate public spaces.
New findings from #AccessibilityTechnology company #AccessNow corroborated this reality as part of its #research project, Mapping Our Cities for All. Considered Canada’s largest accessibility #ResearchInitiative to date, the project evaluated the state of accessibility at more than 14,000 sites in #Vancouver, #Calgary and #Ottawa. Released last November, the research found that almost 60% of public businesses were only partially accessible or not accessible. Much like my Toronto café, many of these spaces had some accessibility features, like a ramp, but also barriers, such as a bathroom only reachable by stairs.
https://broadview.org/canada-isnt-as-accessible-as-it-claims-to-be/
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DisabledCanadians #CDNpoli #BCpoli #YYJpoli #Inclusiveness #CommunityDiversity #AccessabilityForAll
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Great to see that @rightscon is running a Mastodon instance, but where are the #AccessNow accounts and why is the Fediverse not listed on the website? How can AccessNow advocate for a resilient web and confine itself to platforms of surveillance?
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The cyber cost today is the price for our human rights inaction in the past.
https://www.accessnow.org/cyber-accountability-in-east-asia/