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Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented at least 155 internet shutdowns in 29 countries in 2020. Their new report details last year’s shutdowns and its devastating impacts.

In an article for the University of Illinois Law Review, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law’s Laura Moy proposed new taxonomy that parses the ways in which police technology may aggravate inequity as five distinct problems. 

In response to the ongoing coup in Myanmar, EngageMedia, in partnership with MIDO and other CSOs, has created a centralized database of digital security resources in Burmese - these toolkits and guides provide key information and strategies to activists, journalists, and others to more safely operate as they continue their important work in the midst of internet disruption and crackdown.

In its latest report, Full Fact made 10 recommendations to help improve the government's collection, use, and communication of information in the UK. 

Fundación Vía Libre’s Beatriz Busaniche talked with El Diario about data exploitation during the pandemic.

Following almost a decade of litigation of a case challenging the criminalisation of LGBT people in Jamaica, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found the country in violation of international law. This case, brought by Human Dignity Trust, is a historic moment in the decades-long struggle for LGBT equality and marks a real turning point in the battle for decriminalisation in the Caribbean. 

InternetLab’s Francisco Brito Cruz joined Folha de S.Paulo’s podcast to talk about free speech and social media. The organisation also recently released a report on the regulation of the use of personal data in electoral campaigns in Latin America. 

Privacy International’s new guide shows how the UK’s borders, immigrations, and citizenship system tracks and spies on people, and which companies profit. 

Ranking Digital Rights published the 2020 Corporate Accountability Index, which evaluates the world’s most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on their disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy. Watch their webinar launching this year’s index here.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Foxglove, and openDemocracy were involved in a lawsuit against the UK government over the role of Palantir in the country’s National Health Service. The Guardian also profiled Foxglove co-founder Cori Crider and her role taking on tech giants. 

The Guardian highlighted the critical role that Temblores is playing in fighting the structural and systematic abuses in Colombia's police force.