Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk.
By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon, we fight for human rights in the digital age.
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Strengthening the foundation: Access Now embraces new co-leadership model
As of January 2026, Arzu Geybulla has joined Access Now as Co-Executive Director, partnering with Alejandro Mayoral Baños to co-lead Access Now through the evolving human rights landscape of the next year and beyond
Who should control our digital world?
Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality
In the first part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we unpack how LLMs can jeopardize the confidentiality of people’s data.
Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity
In the second part of our series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we examine how LLMs threaten information integrity.
Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI
In the third part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.
Connectivity as a weapon of war: how internet shutdowns harm civilians in armed conflict
Access Now’s latest report, Internet shutdowns in armed conflict: a typology of harms, unpacks the serious harms that internet shutdowns inflict on civilian populations during armed conflict.
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Access Now is a global organization with team members across five continents, and presences in New York, San José (Costa Rica), Brussels, Berlin, Tunis, Delhi, Nairobi, and Manila.