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With the European Parliament preparing to vote on the European Media Freedom Act, digital rights organizations are urging MEPs to reject a provision allowing authoriti...

On International Day for Universal Access to Information (28 September), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) sounds the alarm about a disturbing trend in sub-Saharan Africa – the blocking of access to news websites and often the entire Internet. So far this year, 12 deliberate Internet shutdowns have deprived millions of people of their right to news and information.

Access Now and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights have filed an amicus brief urging the Oregon U.S. District Court to hold DarkMatter, an Emirati spyware firm, accountable for illegaly hacking Saudi women's rights activist Loujain AlHathloul.

The founder of Latvia-based news site Meduza had her phone hacked before a meeting of Russian opposition journalists in Berlin.

Authorities in Libya must ensure unfettered access to the internet and digital communications platforms in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Galina Timchenko, the CEO of Meduza, was hacked earlier this year before participating in a meeting of exiled Russian journalists

For the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million people

NewsRescue The EU countries are monitoring journalists' conversations with "no remedy and no oversight," according to Dutch MEP Sophie in 't Veld, who spoke to The Guardian on Monday. The senator was responding to charges that an EU state had installed spyware on a Russian opposition journalist's phone. Galina Timchenko, the founder of the anti-Kremlin

The founder of Latvia-based news site Meduza had her phone hacked before a meeting of Russian opposition journalists in Berlin An unnamed

Cambodia’s government congratulated tech giant Meta on its decision late last month to reject a recommendation from the company’s own Oversight Board to suspend former Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook account.