Foreign interference has been an issue of growing global concern in the past decade. A key recommendation from this inquiry is for the Australian Government to require all large social media platforms operating in Australia to meet a minimum set of transparency requirements, enforceable with fines.

Freedom of the press is facing growing restrictions from technology policies that censor the media under the guise of protecting privacy, including the misuse of regulations developed in the Global North that are detrimental to media outlets in the Global South. This paper offers solutions to protect news media from the silencing efforts of powerful...

As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) turns five, so does the Europe-wide wait for its real-life enforcement. In this report, Access Now explores how the GDPR could finally become a success if its regulatory enforcement process is improved.

This report synthesises the lessons from six case studies and other research on government data sharing during the pandemic. It finds that current legislation, such as the Digital Economy Act and UK General Data Protection Regulation, does not constitute a barrier to data sharing.

This paper explores the idea that Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are a new type of data trust for decentralised governance of data.