https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/save-encryption/
Message scanning breaks end-to-end encryption, which puts everyone’s privacy and security at risk.
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https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/stop-data-discrimination/
The government wants to make it easier for companies and authorities to use your data against you.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/make-data-protection-law-work-for-everyone/
Currently only citizens – who rarely have the expertise, ability or time – are able to initiate complaints when data law is broken.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/democratic-innovations-tech-for-good/
Meet us online for an exploration of a new report by Open Rights Group (ORG) and Demos on public attitudes towards data driven political campaigning.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/digital-rights-24/
Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/demise-of-the-dpdi-is-good-news-for-data-protection-in-the-uk/
Open Rights Group has welcomed the announcement that the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill will be dropped as a result of the dissolution of...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-encryption/
Spying on private messages has long been on the security services’ wish list.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/supporters-council-meeting/
Monday 18th March at 7pm Our Supporters Council Meeting is a chance for our members to hear the latest news, ask questions about ORG’s work and help to...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/smart-meter-data-the-government-at-it-again/
Back in October 2022, ORG exposed Government plans to snoop on UK residents’ smart meters and energy consumption data.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-bill-a-danger-to-democracy/
The campaign group, Republic have called for an investigation into the arrest of eight of their members, including Chief Executive Graham Smith, ahead of the...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/stop-e-visas/
The Home Office’s flawed eVisa scheme means that many migrants can’t prove their right to be in the UK.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/norwich-meetup-online-harms-bill/
Wednesday 24 February 6:30pm GMT The Online Harms Bill, which is part of the Digital Charter, will impose a legally binding obligation on service providers to...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/icos-failure-to-enforce-is-putting-the-public-at-risk/
Digital rights campaigners have published the Alternative ICO Annual Report, an analysis of the actions taken by the ICO against companies and organisations...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/stop-e-visas-and-digital-windrush-scandal/
What is the e-Visa scheme?
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/prevent-and-the-attack-on-free-speech/
A review of the government’s controversial Prevent duty has been a long time coming.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/e-visas-factsheet/
The Problem From 1 January 2025, people who have right to remain in the UK must have an e-Visas to apply for work, apply to use housing and other services, and...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/policy-briefing-on-retained-eu-law-revocation-and-reform-bill/
Net neutrality to sunset if Retained EU Law Bill is passed Retained Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will wipe out net neutrality from UK law on 31...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/dont-use-beyonce-to-normalise-live-facial-recognition/
Its deployment is nothing more than our demise from democracy.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/introducing-sara-alsherif/
Hello everyone, My name is Sara Alsherif, and I am excited to introduce myself as the new Programme Manager for the Migrant Digital Justice Programme.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-voter-data-privacy-concerns-over-apps-used-by-political-parties/
Moral Hazard A new report, Moral Hazard: Voter Data Privacy and Politics in Election Canvassing Apps, raises concerns about the privacy and security of...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/what-is-our-digital-future-ihuman-and-an-ai-strategy-for-scotland/
Monday 14 December 2020 16:30 GMT Watch the recording here.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ico-fails-to-protect-world-cup-fans/
Last week, several news outlets reported that Qatar’s World Cup apps pose serious privacy and security risks.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-glasgow-presents-facial-recognition-the-big-picture/
Following major developments across the UK and beyond, it’s more important than ever to understand facial recognition technology, an increasingly powerful...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/musk-and-zuck-engineering-free-speech/?ref=mediaactivist.com
Under the guise of protecting free speech, an alarming alignment between government power and Big Tech’s corporate power is unfolding.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/data-use-and-access-bill-will-fail-to-protect-public-from-ai-harms/
The Data Use and Access Bill will fail to protect the public from harmful uses of artificial intelligence, say digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/elon-musk-exposes-the-truth/
Nobody is happy with the private public square Nobody is happy at Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/who-we-are/org-norwich/
ORG Norwich is a place for local supporters concerned about UK digital rights to connect and organise.
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https://www.stage.openrightsgroup.org/blog/our-adtech-challenge-what-we-won-what-we-lost-and-what-we-do-next/
On Friday 26 November 2021, the Upper Tribunal ruled (in Killock and Veale & Ors v Information Commissioner (GI/113/2021 and ors) on our challenge against...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/stand-up-for-privacy/
Yesterday, on June 16, the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform published a report outlining their vision to “refresh the UK’s approach to...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/dpdi-bill-threatens-integrity-of-general-election/
In our latest briefing, Open Rights Group raises the alarm over changes in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI Bill) that could open the...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/launching-org-scotland/
Our members told us there were specific Scottish concerns over digital rights that we couldn’t address properly from London.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/meta-requires-more-transparency-about-anti-gambling-ads-than-gambling-ads/
A new report by digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group (ORG) has highlighted that Meta requires more transparency about adverts that highlight the harms...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/can-our-new-prime-minister-be-trusted-with-free-speech-and-privacy/
As Liz Truss flies to Balmoral tomorrow to meet the Queen, who will ask her to form a government, what can we expect for our free speech and privacy rights?
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-and-the-3million-win-in-court-again/
The Immigration Exemption to data protection is STILL unlawful as Courts tell Home Office again that they cannot sidestep Parliament when using personal data...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/cookie-consent-review-exposes-weaknesses-in-uk-data-protection-reform/
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) consulted on a new enforcement approach to regulating advertising.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/uk-facial-recognition-no-consent-no-oversight/
On 3 February 2023, the Wales cross-party group on digital rights and democracy – for which Open Rights Group serves as the secretariat – held its fourth...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-how-meta-is-monetising-the-migrant-crisis/
How Meta monetises the migrant crisis Social media giant Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis – enabling both criminals and the UK Home...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/
Digital ID cards could create a digital surveillance infrastructure that will change everyone’s daily lives.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/who-we-are/org-manchester/
ORG Manchester is a place for local supporters concerned about UK digital rights to connect and organise.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/data-protection-u-turn-needed/
Government’s proposed changes to UK GDPR should be next to go New chancellor Jeremy Hunt has begun to scrap part of the disastrous economic measures...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/practice-safe-text-campaign-launched/
Open Rights Group has launched a new campaign, ‘Practice Safe Text’ which highlights the importance of end-to-end encryption in keeping our communications...
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https://www.stage.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-complaint-liveramp-adtech/
Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/resist-pre-crime/
Data and content is being weaponised to criminalise people without cause fuelled by facial recognition technology, AI and surveillance.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/impunity-pervades-post-johnson-government/
Johnson’s lack of candour might look like a personal phenomenon, but it was something which pervaded his government.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/creating-the-first-orgcon/
In 2010 we launched our national digital rights conference, ORGCon, attracting over 400 people.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/councils-against-data-discrimination-10-questions-to-ensure-your-council-isnt-committing-data-discrimination/
A guide for local authority Councillors wishing to prevent data discrimination occurring within their Council.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/meta-wants-to-makes-us-its-ai-guinea-pigs/
Meta, the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, has announced plans to repurpose most of the personal data that they ever collected about you, to train...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-complaint-liveramp-adtech/
Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-to-get-more-data-powers-despite-sarah-everard-records-breach/
The Data use and Access (DUA) Bill will have its second reading in the House of Lords today.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/org-end-of-year-review-2025/
Digital rights in 2025 From age verification and digital ID to crime-predicting tech and attacks on migrants’ digital rights, this year we had to fight...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/id-cards-uk-risks-sleeping-walking-into-pre-crime-state/
Open Rights Group has warned that the UK risks creating a pre-crime state by introducing mandatory ID cards for everyone who works in the UK.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-how-the-dpdi-bill-harms-migrants-data-rights/
Briefing on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill If you are a migrant in the UK, asylum seeker, refugee or working on this issue, you should read...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/covid-apps-success-failure-uk-ireland/
Friday 02 October 4pm BST Six months after the lockdown, a variety of Covid-19 proximity tracker apps have been deployed across Ireland, Northern Ireland,...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/europe-cannot-rubber-stamp-the-uks-data-laws/
The United Kingdom is currently awaiting a decision from Europe on whether it provides adequate standards of data protection.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/become-an-org-member/
Open Rights Group (ORG) works to protect online privacy, challenge mass surveillance and fight for free expression online.
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https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-local-council-ban-%E2%80%98crime-predicting%E2%80%99-police-tech
Police are using so-called “crime-predicting” technology to surveil and monitor us - without our consent! Police use these technologies to target people...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/open-rights-group-responds-to-shawcross-review-of-prevent/
Open rights Group has responded to the Shawcross review of Prevent, which was published today Policy Manager, Sophia Akram said: Open Rights Group and other...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/webinar-data-use-and-access-bill-briefing/
Join us for a discussion about how the Data Use and Access Bill will affect all of our rights.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-forces-to-get-authoritarian-powers-to-extract-data-from-online-accounts/
Digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has condemned the last minute addition of extreme powers to the Crime and Policing Bill.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-the-data-use-and-access-bill-second-reading/
The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-complaint-to-ico-about-meta-privacy-policy-changes/
Open Rights Group has submitted a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about Meta’s plans to take users’ information to “develop...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/70-organizations-cyber-security-experts-and-elected-officials-sign-open-letter-expressing-dangers-of-online-safety-bill/
70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill On 24 November, seventy civil society...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/refugee-week-compassion-needed-at-the-home-office/
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Refugee Week, and the theme is compassion, celebrating the resilience of refugees and asylum seekers.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/who-we-are/org-stoke-on-trent/
ORG Stoke-on-Trent is a place for local supporters concerned about UK digital rights to connect and organise.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/fines-hiked-for-firms-employing-illegal-migrants/
The recent announcement by Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick regarding the proposed rules to triple fines for businesses and landlords supposedly supporting...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-the-ico-isnt-working/
Parliamentary briefing on amendments to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill for the House of Lords Committee Stage, March 2024.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/after-the-storm-a-post-election-analysis-of-uk-us-digital-trade/
Friday 04 December 2020 16:00 GMT If you missed it, watch the recording on Youtube!
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https://action.openrightsgroup.org/make-our-voice-heard-apple%E2%80%99s-encryption-hearing
What's at stake? Your photos of your kids. Your bank statements. Your payslips. Your CV. Should you be able to store these important items safely and...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-our-sites-deadline-17-march/
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/data-sharing-and-migrant-women-reporting-abuse/
On 9 December 2022, The Wales Cross Party Group on Digital Rights and Democracy, of which Open Rights Group is the secretariat, held its second session, this...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/south-wales-police-state-their-case-for-using-facial-recognition/
On 28 June, the parliamentary session’s final Senedd cross-party group (CPG) on digital rights and democracy, of which Open Rights Group (ORG) acts as...
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/org-review-2024/
It’s been another busy year for digital rights, with the added excitement of an earlier than expected General Election!
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