Human rights organisations, academics and experts have written to Ofcom and the tech companies, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance, asking for clarification over how they will protect the right to ...

It’s not even going to work Internet users clearly don’t trust age verification and are choosing ways to get round it. The BBC has reported that the most downloaded apps on Apple’s App store are ...

This press release, including the headline, has been updated as of July 31, 2025 as Google have responded to the Washington Post story. US Democrat Senator Ron Wyden has written to the Director of ...

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 ...

As Online Safety Act age verification or assurance duties kick in, on 25 July 2025, we recap what the act failed to do: regulate and protect privacy of children and adults engaging with these tools.

Henry VIII clauses are delegated legislative powers that allow the government to override or amend primary legislation as it was enacted by Parliament. The Data Use and Access Bill makes extensive use ...

What’s end-to-end encryption? End-to-end encryption means that what you send on a messaging app appears as scrambled code while it’s in digital transit. Only the person you’re talking to has the key ...

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. ...

In this report the Open Rights Group offers our perspective on the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) 2023-24 Annual report, and recently published data on the enforcement action it has taken ...

LABOUR’S AI AND TECH STRATEGY Ultimately, if the Labour Government wants to promote long-term, inclusive growth, and deliver the change they promised to the public, they will need to hit the reset ...

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.