Senator calls for US to pressure UK over Attacks on Encryption | Open Rights Group
This press release, including the headline, has been updated as of July 31, 2025 as Google have responded to the Washington Post story.| Open Rights Group
Human rights organisations, academics and experts have written to Ofcom and the tech companies, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance, asking for clarification over how they will protect the right to freedom of expression online in light of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The letter’s signatories raise concerns that legal duties under […]| Open Rights Group
This press release, including the headline, has been updated as of July 31, 2025 as Google have responded to the Washington Post story.| Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group has warned of serious privacy and security risks for people in the UK as online platforms start to ask users to verify their age, as required by the Online Safety Act.| Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group has received legal advice from Dan Squires KC and Emma Foubister of Matrix Chambers, which states that measures in the Online Safety Bill may involve breaches of international law.| 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
A new report by digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group (ORG) has highlighted that Meta requires more transparency about adverts that highlight the harms of gambling than about adverts that promote gambling.| Open Rights Group
Digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has condemned the last minute addition of extreme powers to the Crime and Policing Bill.| Open Rights Group
Digital rights campaigners, the Open Rights Group have warned that the Data Use and Access Bill contains dangerous provisions that will not only make it harder for people to have control over their personal data and lives, but also threaten adequacy status with the EU.| Open Rights Group
European civil society organisations have written to European Commissioner, Michael McGrath over concerns about the erosion of privacy and data protection in the UK.| Open Rights Group
No excuses for not changing Meta business model A new report by digital campaigners, Open Rights Group urges Meta to amend its business model to comply with data protection law.| Open Rights Group
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.| 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
The Data use and Access (DUA) Bill will have its second reading in the House of Lords today.| 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 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.| Open Rights Group
Moral Hazard A new report, Moral Hazard: Voter Data Privacy and Politics in Election Canvassing Apps, raises concerns about the privacy and security of canvassing apps used by political parties.| Open Rights Group
The #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition – a group of organisations working at the intersections of human rights, racial justice and technology – have written to the Home Secretary calling for safeguards against the harms of AI systems in policing, including an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance systems.| Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group has submitted a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about Meta’s plans to take users’ information to “develop and improve AI”.| Open Rights Group
ORG has joined with Committee to Protect Journalists, Amnesty International UK, Index on Censorship and Reporters Without Borders UK to express support for journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who will attend a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London this week in relation to claims they were targeted by the UK authorities using covert surveillance.| Open Rights Group
The Immigration Exemption to data protection is STILL unlawful as Courts tell Home Office again that they cannot sidestep Parliament when using personal data to profile migrants.| Open Rights Group
