The 2024 #EU elections marked the start of the new 5 year mandate of the European Parliament followed by forming a new political direction of the European Commission. What does this change mean for #cryptography and its regulation in Europe?
Come listen to @marcel_kolaja, Former MEP, and Policy and Advocacy Director for Europe at #AccessNow in the #FOSDEM #EUpolicy devroom (UA2118) to find out!
#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.
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://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/kazakhstan-bans-lgbtq-propaganda
Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government #spyware
#cybersecurity #activism #journalism #AccessNow #Intellexa #Paragon #NSOGroup #Pegasus #Predator #Apple
#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
Why do we even have to fight for accessibility?
We shouldn't have to fight for something as basic as being able to access the things we need.
Which (if you think about it) is pretty much everything. For the blind (like myself) we have to fight for digital accessibility. We continue to fight for accessible websites. Accessible games. Accessible streets. Accessible houses. To simply have accessible lives.
Wheel chair users have constantly to fight also.
They (you) have to fight just to have ramps in places you need to be able to access. So that you don't have to wheel yourselves up flights of stairs. You constantly have to ask the question "Is where I am going accessible?"
"Can a wheel chair user navigate through my destination?"
"Will I be able to get my dream job despite not having eye sight?"
And the thing that all disabled people have to put up with, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, is the undignifying patronising debilitating thing we know of as, Ableism.
And we have grown use to this.
We rave about it. Rant about it. Vent, rage and denounce it. But far too often, our actions extend only to writing a skaving tweet on Twitter.
An angry Facebook post.
Composing a frustrated thread on Threads.
It is not typing that will stop this.
The pressing of keys on a keyboard does get your thoughts out there, but beyond that does very little.
After seeing dozens of posts like yours, the people in charge simply tune out.
They seas to listen. They close their ears. And Nothing my disabled friends, changes for us at all.
The wheel chair user still has to worry about whether they will be able to wheel themselves into their workplace.
The blind person still has to plead with major companies, to make their apps accessible.
So that all can use them. Regardless of our ability to see. Our ability to move. Our ability to hear. Nothing changes. And still, we remain silent. Silent. Submissive. Subservient to the ways which we all in one way or another regardless of our disability hate, find undignifying or damn right debilitating.
We live this (all of us) every day. Or at least, every week.
We are told we can't climb stairs. That we can't be as independent as the rest of society. That we will always need help. That we will always need assistance.
Some of us might. And indeed some of us will, but let us be the ones to ask for it. Not have another person decide for us.
Act on our behalf, simply because our sight, our mobility, our focus our minds are not as functional, easy or able as the sight, minds movement and focus of the rest of society.
We the disabled need to remember, that we don't need to lean on our non-disabled peers like crutches.
We the disabled need to remember, that we are (when it comes down to it) just as capable as everyone else.
We may have to do things differently.
The blind among our number may need to read things in braille or listen to them.
Our wheel chair bound fellow disabled people may need to wheel themselves around or perhaps may not be able to walk as far as the non-disabled people in our society. But that does not make us less able. That does not make us less useful. That does not make us worthless.
No human being is worthless. Every human being is equal.
But my friends, we are only able when we choose to be.
Things will only change if we decide to make them do so. And things will most certainly not change, if we whisper our grievances.
Let us shout them to the world.
Let us announce them to the globe.
Let us denounce the barriers that stand in our way.
And in the name of god, let us not write our frustrations, but act on them.
There is no reason on Earth, why your workplace couldn't have a ramp for your wheel chair.
There is no reason in the universe, that canes are not accessible to all blind people.
There is absolutely no reason in the cosmos, that this world of ours cannot accommodate the millions of us disabled people who live within it.
We may be labeled difficult for refusing to tolerate this.
We may be called unreasonable, for supposedly expecting "to much" from the people in charge.
But if accessibility. If equality. If basic human decency is too much to ask, then this world needs to take a long hard look at itself.
We the disabled may be a minority, but we are not going away.
There may be more non-disabled people on this planet than disabled people, but that does not mean that we do not deserve to be accommodated, included and valued just like the rest of our fellow human beings.
Let we the disabled be no longer an after thought, but instead a before thought.
Let accessibility not be a rarity, but instead normality.
And let inclusion not be unusual, but as normal as the presence of people.
As the presence of water.
As the presence, of the very Earth we stand on.
Accessibility isn't just generosity, it is basic decency. Because if we the disabled cannot access our world, then how in god's name can we live and flourish within it? The lives of our non-disabled friends are also hard, but at least they are able to access pretty much the whole of this world.
So should they be able to access and so enjoy our world, so too should we. Blind or immobile. Partially sighted or autistic or less able to walk, this is our world too. And so we too, deserve to be able to access it.
#Accessibility #Disabled #Inclusion #Blind #Disability #Equality #DisabledAccess #Accessibilityforall #Accessforall #Accessnow #Decency #Ableism
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.
"蘋果警告100國iPhone用戶已遭間諜軟體鎖定"
https://www.ithome.com.tw/news/168724
蘋果說雖然不是絕對肯定，但對偵測結果有高度信心，請用戶不要掉以輕心。Pellegrino引述蘋果表示，該訊息已發送給100個國家受影響的用戶。
根據蘋果傭兵間諜軟體威脅通知的說明， #用戶是基於其身份或是職業而遭到這類攻擊鎖定。傭兵間諜軟體的攻擊行動成本高達數百萬美元，且複雜度極高，歷來與國家、政府有關，國家可能使用專門業者開發的軟體NSO Group的Pegasus發動攻擊。攻擊對象是極少數個人，通常是記者、社運人士、政治家和外交官。由於此類攻擊多為針對個人發動攻擊，且通常活動期很短，難以偵測和預防。
Guardian報導，受害者iPhone #感染的間諜軟體來自以色列公司Paragon Solutions。其他被傭兵間諜軟體鎖定者還包括援救難民的神父及人權運動人士。
New BRANDED slip mats?? What? We're living the HIGH life at #AccessNow #communityradio
Rapport de #accessnow sur la censure d'internet : https://www.accessnow.org/internet-shutdowns-2024/
From Access Now;
Emboldened offenders, endangered communities: internet shutdowns in 2024
https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-internet-shutdowns-2024-en/
It’s official, 2024 was the worst year on record for internet shutdowns.
Launching today, February 24, 2025, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Emboldened offenders, endangered communities: internet shutdowns in 2024, exposes how authorities imposed at least 296 internet shutdowns in 54 countries, causing chaos...
#internetshutdown #accessnow
👉 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)
#Apple sends #spyware victims to this nonprofit #security lab | TechCrunch
#privacy #accessnow
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/why-apple-sends-spyware-victims-to-this-nonprofit-security-lab/
#AccessNow: İsrail'in Filistin'e yönelik dijital işgaline karşı mücadele
📍Access Now’dan Marwa Fatafta, "İsrail, Gazze ve Filistinlileri kendi teknolojileri için bir test laboratuvarı olarak kullanarak, dünyaya yapay zekâ destekli yeni ve tehlikeli bir savaş planı sunuyor" diyor.
私は、Youtubeの動画を引用する必要がでてきたときには、Invidiousのサイトを使います。
https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
あるいはFreetubeのアプリを使います。
https://freetubeapp.io
他にもプライバシーを重視したYoutube代替のサービスがあります。私は、ジェノサイドに加担する企業のサービスは可能な限り使わないようにしています。以下の記事を参照してください。
Best YouTube alternatives(英語)
https://protonvpn.com/blog/youtube-alternatives/
参考(アクセスナウの記事の日本語訳) Youtubeがジェノサイドとどのように関わりがあるか記事内に言及があります。
https://www.alt-movements.org/no_more_capitalism/hankanshi-info/knowledge-base/facebook-twitter-youtube-stop-silencing-critical-voices-mena_jp/
https://www.alt-movements.org/no_more_capitalism/hankanshi-info/knowledge-base/accessnow_gaza-genocide-big-tech_jp/
#Youtbe #ジェノサイド #invidious #Freetube #accessnow
日本語に訳しました。ビッグテックがジェノサイドにいかに加担しているのかを、Meta、Google、Amazon、Microsoftについて概観したわかりやすいレポート。
(Accessnow)ビッグテックとジェノサイドのリスク：企業は何をしているのか？
https://www.alt-movements.org/no_more_capitalism/hankanshi-info/knowledge-base/accessnow_gaza-genocide-big-tech_jp/
#Meta #Amazon #Google #Microsoft #accessnow #gaza #genocide
“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
✅ 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)
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.
