Launch of global #KeepItOn campaign with nearly 70 organizations committing to fight internet shutdowns

As Ghana threatens to cut off social media during elections, human rights organizations rally to #KeepItOn globally

GLOBAL—Today Access Now, along with nearly 70 organizations from five continents, launched the #KeepitOn campaign to fight internet shutdowns worldwide. Other groups include Association for Progressive Communications, Digital Rights Foundation Pakistan, Human Rights Watch, Bytes for All, Electronic Frontier Foundation, iFreedom Uganda, Internews, Hivos, Arab World Internet Institute, Digital Rights Watch Australia, Bits of Freedom, La Quadrature du Net, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, and many more. The full list is available on the campaign website: https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/

Beyond Privacy video

Didn’t get a chance to come to our panel discussion about Australia’s Privacy laws? You can still watch the whole discussion on our YouTube channel or below

Only truth: a symposium on Internet privacy

Part CryptoParty, part symposium, Only Truth is a series of talks and practicalguides that will equip the average internet user with information and open sourcetools to protect their communication, privacy, and security.

Speakers will talk about Australian metadata capture, the ethics of digital privacy,and how our algorithm-effected online life is changing our offline selves. Thepractical guides will focus on Australian metadata, and simple tools for mobiledevices and personal computers to encrypt or protect your information. Only Truth will also provide a platform for audience members to ask questions and discussissues raised in Algorithmic Misfits.

Event: Beyond Privacy

‘Lawfulness’ is routinely referred to by state agencies as the benchmark for appropriate surveillance. But how might the law, intended as a safeguard, actually be used to undermine a democratic system of checks and balances?

Digital Rights Watch at RightsCon

Digital Rights Watch board member Lizzie O’Shea has been talking all things privacy, security, surveillance and copyright at the US RightsCon event in Silicon Valley.