Event

Citizen Lab @ RightsCon

Date

May 5, 2026

Time

9:00AM ET

Topics

Digital Transnational Repression Law & Policy Mass Surveillance
authoritarianism, civil society

People

This event is hosted by Access Now.

Join the Citizen Lab at RightsCon this year from May 5-8 in Lusaka, Zambia. 

Senior legal advisor Siena Anstis will be hosting a roundtable with Access Now on “The digital targeting of humanitarian organizations: impacts and responses.” 

Senior research associate Kate Robertson will host a dialogue alongside The De|Center and Marshall Project on “Blocking the weaponization pipeline: Prisons as laboratories of authoritarian tech.”

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