A policy brief on the inclusion of private communications in scope of the Online Safety Bill and the impact on end-to-end encryption Chat monitoring of private messaging services has sneaked into the Online Safety Bill with very little public debate or Parliamentary Scrutiny.| Open Rights Group
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 Online Safety Bill.| Open Rights Group
MPs are expected to vote for the Investigatory Powers Amendment Bill (IPAB) when it returns to parliament today.| Open Rights Group
The Online Safety Act Policy Hub is a place to find out more about the issues affecting end-to-end encryption and freedom of expression online.| Open Rights Group
The deployment of client-side scanning on private messaging systems was trailed in a research paper published by the technical directors of GCHQ and the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC).| Open Rights Group
Rights groups call for Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.| Open Rights Group
It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to m...| 38 Degrees
Spying on private messages has long been on the security services’ wish list.| Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group has responded to Apple’s announcement that they will no longer be able to offer Advanced Data Protection tools after UK security row.| Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.| Open Rights Group
