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Hinako Sugiyama Esq.

Legal Fellow

Hinako works with Access Now's Legal arm to more effectively secure the rights of users at risk, including through strategic litigation and managing the Digital Rights Litigators Network. Before Access Now, she worked as a global corporate compliance and ethics (C&E) lawyer at the Tokyo office of an international law firm, where she investigated a number of cross-border corporate misconducts and negotiated with law enforcement agencies, and improved C&E systems of multinational corporations. There, she also obtained a scholarship for study at Columbia Law School LL.M. After Columbia, Hinako interned with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She holds a BA in Political Science from Keio University and a J.D. from Hitotsubashi Law School. Hinako is licensed in Japan and has a funny dog.
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Wall Street keeps bankrolling dangerous surveillance tech. Congress must act

16 Mar 2022

The Cellebrite IPO got a green light despite the evidence showing the Israeli spy firm’s technology facilitates human rights abuse around the world. Here’s how to fix the broken public disclosure process.

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Wall Street keeps bankrolling dangerous surveillance tech. Congress must act
16 Mar 2022
Wall Street keeps bankrolling dangerous surveillance tech. Congress must act
Digital rights

At the U.N., a new push to end surveillance of protesters — and protect their lawyers

7 Jul 2021

Digital surveillance is threatening the right to protest worldwide. U.N. human rights expert Clément Voule is fighting for strong encryption and tight restrictions on the use of spyware. Here’s why that push is important for human rights lawyers and the activists they represent.

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At the U.N., a new push to end surveillance of protesters — and protect their lawyers
7 Jul 2021
At the U.N., a new push to end surveillance of protesters — and protect their lawyers
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What spy firm Cellebrite can’t hide from investors

26 May 2021

Cellebrite could soon get a greenlight to go public, rewarding its facilitation of human rights abuses across the globe with more power and money. We map these abuses, show how Cellebrite’s human rights compliance has failed, and urge investors to require the company to improve its compliance or lose the deal.

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What spy firm Cellebrite can’t hide from investors
26 May 2021
What spy firm Cellebrite can’t hide from investors