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@accessnow.orgWe’re hiring a Financial Reporting Manager! 📢
Join Access Now’s Finance Team to manage financial reporting, budgeting, audits, and operations. English fluency, GAAP knowledge, and NGO experience are required.
Candidates must be based in Costa Rica.
@accessnow.orgMyanmar’s regime has detained at least 2,029 people who have used social media to oppose military rule online, since the 2021 coup.
Authorities must keep the internet open, and protect people’s right to express and access information. #KeepItOn
@accessnow.orgAt least 50 people were reportedly killed and 58 injured in military airstrikes on a busy market in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar.
As violence continues, civilians need access to the internet to document + report on abuses + access information.
@accessnow.orgPeople in Tigray told us what it meant to live through a prolonged internet shutdown that began in 2020 and lasted for more than two years.
Now, as fighting escalates + connectivity is disrupted again, their stories are a reminder of what is at stake. #KeepItOn
@accessnow.orgAs fighting escalates in Tigray, shutdowns can further isolate people, prevent the documentation of human rights abuses, and exacerbate humanitarian crises.
Authorities must immediately stop weaponizing internet access in Tigray and #KeepItOn.
@accessnow.orgEnough is enough!
People in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are once again cut off from the internet + the world, with services disrupted since September 25.
The region has already endured a blackout lasting over two years in 2020. It must NOT happen again.
@accessnow.orgWe marked the International Day for Universal Access to Information, emphasizing what’s at the heart of our work: informed communities with access to the information they need to make choices and engage fully in society.
Help us keep fighting the good fight; donate today: accessnow.org/donate
@accessnow.org120,000+ cameras. 49 US states. A searchable record of where people go.
In a new op-ed, Michael De Dora and Maria Villegas Bravo examine Flock’s mass surveillance network, and the risks it poses to privacy, security, and rights.
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@accessnow.orgAs we mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we invite you to join us for a conversation about the current cybersecurity landscape, the threats we’re seeing, and how we can work together to build greater resilience in the digital age.
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@accessnow.orgFrom RightsCon Continues 🔥
Felicia Anthonio, our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, dives into a decade of movement-building against internet shutdowns in this Fireside Chat, featuring representatives from 7amleh, Vodafone, Calendrys, and more.
Watch the recording on the platform.
@accessnow.orgFrom RightsCon Continues 🔥 Join Naro Omo-Osagie, Africa Policy and Advocacy Manager at Access Now, for a Fireside Chat on movement-building against digital authoritarianism and transnational repression, featuring experts from Myanmar Internet Project, WITNESS, and +. Watch it on the platform.
@accessnow.orgFrom RightsCon Continues 🔥 Join Daniel Leufer, our Senior Policy Analyst, for a multi-stakeholder discussion on inclusive global AI governance, featuring representatives from @Signal, the Swiss Federal Office of Communications, the government of Ghana, and +. Don’t miss out!
@accessnow.orgFrom RightsCon Continues 🔥 Bridget Andere, Senior Policy Analyst at Access Now, joins the first RightsCon Continues Fireside Chat to discuss protecting freedom of assembly and association in Africa with experts from Change Tanzania, AfricTivistes, and more. Don’t miss out!
@accessnow.orgFrom RightsCon Continues Mohammed Al-Maskati, Digital Security Helpline Director at Access Now, and Palestinian tech and human rights activists unpack how biometric surveillance and AI-driven targeting function as tools of war and occupation. Don’t miss out — jump onto the platform and join us!
@accessnow.orgFrom RightsCon Continues 🔥 Natalia Krapiva, Senior Tech-Legal Counsel at Access Now, dives into the political influence of the commercial spyware industry with experts from Deakin University, Reporters Without Borders, and more. Don’t miss out — jump onto the platform and join us!
@accessnow.orgJoin Alejandro Mayoral Baños, our Co-Executive Director, at RightsCon Continues for “From Surveillance to Governance: Recentering Human Rights in the UN AI Agenda” to explore how we can put digital rights at the heart of the UN AI agenda.
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@accessnow.orgJoin @djleufer.bsky.social, our Senior Policy Analyst, and experts from Signal, the UK AI Security Institute, Diversa + the Swiss Federal Office of Communications at RightsCon Continues for a chat on rights-respecting AI governance.
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@accessnow.orgHow do we protect civic space in the digital age?
Join @bridgeta.bsky.social for “Safeguarding Civic Space in the Digital Age: Protecting Freedom of Assembly and Association in Africa” at RightsCon Continues to learn more.
đź“… Sep 22 | 5:30 pm CEST
@accessnow.orgJoin Access Now and Deakin University for “Spyware’s Corridors of Power: The Political Influence of the Commercial Spyware Industry” at RightsCon Continues to explore the commercial spyware industry and its political influence.
đź“… Sep 22 | 4:15 pm CEST
@accessnow.orgJoin Access Now and @7amleh.bsky.social for “Surveillance as Warfare: Biometric Control, AI Targeting, and Corporate Complicity in Palestine” at RightsCon Continues — discussing biometric surveillance, AI targeting + corporate involvement.
đź“… Sep 22 | 4:15 pm CEST
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