From Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to ...

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.

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 ...

Data profiling, or behavioural profiling, is one of the most powerful tools in digital advertising, and generates billions of dollars of revenue for the sites that host ads.

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 ...

This document is intended as a full overview of the Online Safety Act (OSA, or the Act) and how it works for organisations attempting to understand it and its implications.

ORG Slams Use of e-Visas for Immigration Raids Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and ...

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.

Digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group (ORG) have responded to the publication of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

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 hearing Apple’s appeal ...

Rights groups call for Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.