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 ...

Safeguard private communication Over 80 civil society organisations, academics and cyber experts from 23 countries have written to the UK government to raise the alarm about proposed powers in the ...

ORG submits complaints about intrusive LiveRamp adtech system Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de ...

What’s the Harm in the Online Safety Bill? Throughout the development of the government’s Online Harms policy, a central concern of ORG and other human rights organisations is how any legally mandated ...

ORG report finds that ICO failed to hold the government to account over use of public health data during pandemic ORG’s new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in ...

This report lays out clear evidence of how Meta enables bad actors to use its targeted advertising system to manipulate elections, spread disinformation, fuel division, and facilitate fraud.

James Baker, Platform Power Programme Manager said: “Protecting children online is vital but we need to ensure that both children’s and adult’s privacy and security are not undermined in the process. ...

Tell the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology that Age Assurance done under the Online Safety Act must be safe, private and trusted. Open Rights Group has warned of serious privacy and ...

26 civil society organisations have written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, calling for the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill ...

Meta’s stalker ads model is in breach of data protection law Expected ‘consent or pay’ model must let users opt out of stalker ads Thousands who have exercised their right to opt out in the wake of ...

In this report, we analyse the Online Safety Act (OSA or ‘the Act’) 2023, which imposes new duties on online service providers to protect children from harmful content, and Ofcom’s guidance to ...

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.