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.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital rights organisation that campaigns to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world ...

3 days ago · The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Open Rights Group welcomes the removal of provisions that would have: watered down the definition of personal data; expanded the scope of democratic engagement; lowered the threshold to refuse a data rights request to “vexatious and excessive”; removed various ...

Jan 12, 2023 · Views Around the Table on the Online Safety Bill. On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group (ORG) held a roundtable with civil society – from women’s rights advocacy groups to organisations representing over-surveilled communities – to discuss some of the most concerning aspects of the Online Safety Bill, currently at …

What’s legal to say should be legal to type. SUBMISSION TO PARLIAMENT Addressing automated, arbitrary, algorithmic censorship in the Online Safety BillJune 2022 Contents About Open Rights Group 2 Addressing automated, arbitrary algorithmic censorship 2 Our concerns and recommendations 2 Summary 3 Automated censorship and arbitrary restrictions 4 Content moderation systems 5 Arbitrary ...

Global encryption coalition warns of Online Safety Bill dangers 70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an …

Feb 3, 2025 · Safety Not Surveillance is led by Open Rights Group who plays a coordinating role in the coalition. The coalition includes organisations from across the movement ecosystem. Coalition partner organisations include: Open Rights Group, Racial Justice Network, The 4Front Project, Hackney Account ...

Dec 23, 2024 · Getting digital rights on the election agenda. Rishi Sunak’s decsion to call an early General Election took the country by surprise. Fortunately ORG had already consulted with our members and supporters to develop our Digital Rights 2024 Manifesto, which many of our supporters shared with their MP candidates.. Along with human rights, migrant and justice rights organisation, we called on all ...

ORG VICTORIES. From the Immigration Exception to the Covid-19 app, we’ve achieved a long list of victories in defence of our civil liberties in the digital age

Dec 3, 2024 · Powers to imprison social media executives mirrors those exercised by Vladimir Putin in Russia Ministerial powers to censor legal content still in place Shifting bill promises more policy failures and disappointment Responding to the news of the Government’s republication of the draft Online Safety Bill, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, Jim Killock, said: “The fact that the ...