The Data Use and Access (DUA) Act, which was finally passed last week, could particularly impact the estimated 4.4 million people who work for ‘gig’ economy platforms in the UK, who are classed as ...

Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.

Brace yourselves: new UK data laws are coming. The Government have just announced their plans to gut the UK General Data Protection Regulation.They are proposing to bonfire your rights and remove the ...

Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, politicians have spent 4 years criticising the use of personal data for political campaigning, particularly on social media. Here, for the first time, ORG lifts ...

Leading cybersecurity experts and human rights activists say scaremongering tactics being used to mislead the public and make bogus case for weakening encryption. Over half a million pounds of ...

Thousands of Prevent referrals are made each year ostensibly to “support people susceptible to radicalisation”. The overwhelmingly majority do not meet the threshold for a Channel intervention (a ...

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 ...

About the complaints. Mr Killock previously complained to the ICO about online advertising privacy practices in 2018. Now, an investigation commissioned by Open Rights Group, carried out by ...

Dr Monica Horten, Policy Manager for Freedom of Expression at the Open Rights Group said: “The Government is scrambling to solve a host of problems with draconian regulation. “From age-gating popular ...

Among other things, we are concerned that the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill:. weakens safeguards when intelligence services collect bulk datasets of personal information, potentially allowing ...

Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.