European civil society organisations have written to European Commissioner, Michael McGrath over concerns about the erosion of privacy and data protection in the UK. The organisations argue that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) about LiveRamp, an online ...

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 ...

The Intelligence and Security Committee has published the findings of its Privacy and Security Inquiry. At the same time Open Rights Group is publishing its own ...

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 ...

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. The report analyses use of data in three key ...

The draft Online Safety Bill’s provisions on mandatory age verification don’t just threaten your rights to privacy and freedom of expression – they also threaten the integrity of the Internet’s ...

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 Online Safety Bill. These powers ...

Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, politicians have spent 4 years criticising the use of personal data for political campaigning, particularly on social media. Here, for the first time, ORG lifts ...

The essential detail is that they will assume you want filters enabled across a wide range of content, and unless you un-tick the option, network filters will be enabled. As we’ve said repeatedly, ...