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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. We fight for a fair digital environment where technology supports justice, equality and freedom. We campaign, lobby, go to court – whatever it takes to challenge restrictions to ...
Research - Open Rights Group
Oct 8, 2024 · The Online Safety Bill – Sector Support Roundtable. In September 2022, Open Rights Group convened a discussion between privacy and data protection experts and other civil society professionals exploring the nexus between privacy, protection from online abuse and freedom of expression. Find Out More. 27 October, 2022.
Defend Online Speech - Open Rights Group
Government’s Kafkaesque plans for regulating online speech is condemned. Responding to the Online Safety Bill, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said: “Treating online speech as inherently dangerous and demanding that risks are eliminated under the threat of massive fines is only going to end up in over-reaction and ...
Campaigns - Open Rights Group
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. Find out more.
Blog | Open Rights Group
Jul 26, 2024 · 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 the report stage in the House of Commons. Find Out More.
Online Safety Bill Policy Hub | Open Rights Group
SOAS ICOP Policy Briefings – Online Safety Bill “spy clause” requires chat platforms to scan private messages, by the Open Rights Group, 5 December 2022. Policy briefing – Online Safety Bill third reading. Policy briefing – Criminal liability for content harmful to children. Policy Briefing: Who is checking on your chats in private ...
Open Rights Group Response to Data: a new direction
Nov 19, 2021 · EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. On 10 September 2021, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published “Data: a new direction”, a consultation about reforms to the UK data protection framework. Open Rights Group (ORG) is deeply concerned by the contents and the potential impact of the proposals being discussed in this consultation.
ORG and the 3million win in court again | Open Rights Group
Dec 11, 2023 · The case is part of litigation which has been brought by the3million, the organisation representing EU citizens in the UK, and Open Rights Group, the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) intervened in the case. Since March 2018, six judges found the Immigration ...
Our year of action - Open Rights Group
Dec 22, 2021 · With Britain still in the throes of Covid-19, 2021 was a truly unique year for the movement to protect our digital rights. As we look back on our challenges and triumphs, Open Rights Group (ORG) has all our members and supporters to …
News - Open Rights Group
Jul 15, 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 ...