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The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the ...
Digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has condemned the last minute addition of extreme powers to the Crime and Policing Bill. The new additions would give the police the powers to extract data ...
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.
A new report by digital campaigners, the Open Rights Group, outlines how the Online Safety Act favours big tech, and harms small websites and the general public.
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.
How Meta monetises the migrant crisis 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.
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 ...
Open Rights Group has responded to a Washington Post article that claims the UK has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud. “In doing ...
Executive Summary The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.