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As citizens get ready to head to the polls on August 23, experts recommend getting a VPN to bypass potential disruptions. Here's what's at stake.

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton backed French President Macron's call for debate on social media with new Digital Service Act. Here, what's at stake.

A new report by Access Now and the #KeepItOn campaign finds 35 countries have hit the kill button over the past year.

More than half of 84 shutdowns in 2022 recorded in Kashmir as India leads Access Now list for a fifth consecutive year.

Access to internet services restricted 187 times by 35 countries says new research, with India, Iran and Myanmar repeatedly enforcing blackouts

In a ceasefire agreement signed earlier this month, Ethiopia committed to restoring basic services to the Tigray region.

From Sudan to Syria, Jordan to Jaipur, the trend towards digital authoritarianism is deepening

A US-backed campaign is giving Russians access to anti-censor software to dodge Moscow's crackdown on dissent against its invasion of Ukraine, involved groups told AFP. Russia has intensified its restrictions on independent media since attacking its neighbor in February, with journalists under threat of prosecution for criticizing the invasion or…

Human rights groups have urged video-conferencing company Zoom to scrap research on integrating emotion recognition tools into its products, saying the technology can infringe users' privacy and perpetuate discrimination. Technology publication Protocol reported last month that California-based Zoom was looking into building such tools, which could use artificial intelligence (AI)…