The Data Use and Access (DUA) Act, which was finally passed last week, could particularly impact the estimated 4.4 million people who work for ‘gig’ economy platforms in the UK, who are classed as ...

Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.

Open Rights Group has responded to a Washington Post article that claims the UK has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud. “In doing ...

Thousands of Prevent referrals are made each year ostensibly to “support people susceptible to radicalisation”. The overwhelmingly majority do not meet the threshold for a Channel intervention (a ...

Among other things, we are concerned that the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill:. weakens safeguards when intelligence services collect bulk datasets of personal information, potentially allowing ...

About the complaints. Mr Killock previously complained to the ICO about online advertising privacy practices in 2018. Now, an investigation commissioned by Open Rights Group, carried out by ...

Dear Lord Justice Singh, As organisations committed to defending privacy and freedom of expression rights, we are writing in response to reports that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (‘IPT’) will be ...

Open Rights Group has warned that Online Safety Bill, which has been passed in parliament, will make us less secure by threatening our privacy and undermining our freedom of expression. This includes ...

Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.

THE BILL (STILL) REDUCES TRANSPARENCY, PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Transparency is a fundamental right, as it enables control over personal data, and constitutes the first ...

Notes to Editors . Tech companies have also raised concerns about the threat to privacy and security posed by private message scanning. In April, WhatsApp, Signal and Element and others, said that the ...

Let’s look at how the Online Safety Bill brings the contents of your private communications into scope for scanning, monitoring, and censorship. The Online Safety Bill will apply to the contents of ...