As Online Safety Act age verification or assurance duties kick in, on 25 July 2025, we recap what the act failed to do: regulate and protect privacy of children and adults engaging with these tools.| Open Rights Group
The e-Visa will be used to demonstrate someone’s ability to enter the UK, to prove their right to work and to access banking, mortgages and secure housing rental agreements.| Open Rights Group
The Problem 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.| Open Rights Group
CIVIL SOCIETY COMMITTEE STAGE BRIEFING ON THE ONLINE SAFETY BILL FOR HOUSE OF LORDS: ILLEGAL CONTENT SAFETY DUTIES AND PRIOR RESTRAINT – Supported by Wikimedia UK, Index on Censorship, and Open Rights Group.| Open Rights Group
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
Data profiling, or behavioural profiling, is one of the most powerful tools in digital advertising, and generates billions of dollars of revenue for the sites that host ads.| Open Rights Group
Since its first advertising product launched in 2004, Meta has relied on revenue from advertising to support its business.| Open Rights Group
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.| Open Rights Group
Executive Summary The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.| Open Rights Group
ORG statements of support for amendments to the DUA Bill tabled in the House of Commons at Report Stage ICO Complaints procedure for vulnerable individuals – statement of support for Siân Berry MP’s amendment NC15 The right to an effective remedy constitutes a core element of data protection: most individuals will not pursue cases before a court because of the lengthy, time-consuming and costly nature of judicial procedures.| Open Rights Group
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Joint letter from Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship.| Open Rights Group
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In this report we analyse the technical architecture, and associated privacy policies, of the canvassing apps used by the Liberal Democrat, Conservative, and Labour parties during the 2024 general election.| Open Rights Group
ORG answer to the DCMS consultation on the Government Plan for Digital Regulation 0.| Open Rights Group
ORG response to the Government approach to regulating Artificial Intelligence 0 Executive Summary Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect fundamental rights to privacy and free speech online.| Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group analysis of the UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, as it was presented on 18 July 2022 0.| Open Rights Group
Briefing for the Report Stage, November 2023 DATA BILL WILL SET BACK UK ECONOMY AND RIGHTS The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill will have its report stage in Parliament on November 29 2023.| Open Rights Group
Parliamentary briefing on amendments to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill for the House of Lords Committee Stage, March 2024.| Open Rights Group
Honourable Chair, dear Juan, Thank you for your letter of 13 June 2023, in which you ask the Commission about its assessmentof the UK’s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that is currently before the UK Parliament.| Open Rights Group
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Open Rights Group has submitted a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK about Meta’s plans to take users’ information to “develop and improve AI”.| Open Rights Group