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 ...

Leading cybersecurity experts and human rights activists say scaremongering tactics being used to mislead the public and make bogus case for weakening encryption.

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

Online Safety Bill: US and UK campaigners warn of dangers of age verification New briefing by Open Rights Group and EFF highlights the dangers posed by age verification proposals in the Online Safety ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in protecting the public privacy and data rights during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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 ...

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 ...

The Data Grab Bill attacks our data rights ORG sent an urgent open letter to Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. The letter, ...

Brace yourselves: new UK data laws are coming The Government have just announced their plans to gut the UK General Data Protection Regulation. They are proposing to bonfire your rights and remove the ...

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 ...