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 ...

A new report by digital campaigners, Open Rights Group urges Meta to amend its business model to comply with data protection law. The report outlines alternative business models that will not force ...

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and flawed eVisa scheme a ‘success’ and says that it ...

Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, sit at the intersection of the attention economy and surveillance capitalism. Meta’s business model is built on maximising user attention while ...

Social media giant Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis – enabling both criminals and the UK Home Office to target vulnerable migrants with adverts. Research by ORG found that fraudulent ...

Digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group (ORG) have responded to the publication of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. ORG’s Platform Power Programme Manager James Baker said: “ORG welcomes ...

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 ...

Joint letter from Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship to the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The letter states that the “case implicates the privacy rights of ...

Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI ...

From 1 January 2025, people who have right to remain in the UK must have an e-Visas to apply for work, apply to use housing and other services, and to re-enter the UK. Other documents such as ...

Digital rights campaigners have published the Alternative ICO Annual Report, an analysis of the actions taken by the ICO against companies and organisations that have breached data protection law. The ...

The Data Use and Access Bill will fail to protect the public from harmful uses of artificial intelligence, say digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group. The Bill, published today, rehashes many ...