TRANSPARENCY
Transparency reporting is one of the strongest ways for technology companies to disclose threats to user privacy and free expression. Such reports help users understand a company’s policies and safeguards against government abuses. Disclosures illuminate the scope and scale of online surveillance, internet shutdowns, content removal, and a host of other practices impacting our fundamental rights. Investors also look to these reports to ensure that companies are upholding their duty to respect human rights.
Transparency Reporting Index
While more companies are releasing transparency reports, others are backsliding on transparency. First launched in 2014, our Transparency Reporting Index aims to make these reports more accessible to the public, human rights advocates, investors, researchers, and other stakeholders.
Latest Updates
Microsoft: it’s time to come clean about your ties to the Israeli military
Through a new joint letter, we’re calling on Microsoft to publish the findings of its review into the Israeli military’s use of the company services.
Joint letter to Microsoft regarding Israeli military use of Azure cloud and AI services
A follow up to our open letter regarding Microsoft’s formal review of recent allegations about Israel’s usage of Azure cloud for the surveillance and targeting of Palestinians.
War profiteers: online ads and the machinery of propaganda for war
As governments deploy propaganda for war using online ads, Access Now examines the application of international human rights law and explores digital platforms’ responsibility to respect human rights.
War profiteers: online ads, propaganda for war, and a call to reprioritize human rights
Access Now’s latest report examines how propaganda for war and online ads intersect with the international human rights law.
Taking stock of Big Tech: the 2025 RDR Index
Big Tech needs to step up. We’re pushing companies in the 2025 RDR Index to do better on human rights.
Microsoft must come clean on its role in Israel’s war on Gaza
We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are writing with great concern regarding media reporting alleging that Microsoft has contributed to grave violations of international law perpetrated by the Israeli authorities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Human rights groups demand answers from Microsoft on its role in Israel’s war on Gaza
Access Now and partners urged Microsoft to immediately end any involvement with Israeli authorities’ systemic repression of Palestinians.
CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine
Human rights NGOs and academics condemn efforts to muzzle discussion of the genocide in Gaza at the 2025 CPDP conference in Brussels.
Making money out of a disaster: fake news in Myanmar quake
Ten years of tracking transparency: the Transparency Reporting Index
We’re refreshing our Transparency Reporting Index to reflect current practices and trends, including adding reports on content governance.
Transparency Reporting Index
We’re refreshing our Transparency Reporting Index to reflect current practices and trends, including adding reports on content governance.
Tackling the “black snakes” undermining digital rights worldwide
As 2025 gets underway, Access Now’s new Executive Director, Alejandro Mayoral Baños, PhD, shares his reflections on the “black snakes” threatening the digital rights movement.
Joint statement: civil society concerns and priorities for Global Digital Compact implementation
Sanctions were meant to stop Russian propaganda. They’re hurting vital journalism too
OCHA: a new era for humanitarianism must include digital protection
Access Now congratulates Tom Fletcher on his appointment as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
