From Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to ...

Dear Ofcom, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance, Implementation of Palestine Action proscription on social media We are writing with serious concerns about how Ofcom and social media platforms will ...

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.

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 ...

The Data Grab Bill attacks our data rights ORG sent an urgent open letter to Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. The letter, ...

Online Safety Bill: Suella Braverman fails to understand encryption risk Open Rights Group has responded to an opinion piece in the Telegraph by the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman MP that claims ...

Let’s look at how the Online Safety Bill brings the contents of your private communications into scope for scanning, monitoring, and censorship.

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 ...

Access denied: Service blocking in the Online Safety Bill As the Online Safety Bill approaches the pre-legislative scrutiny process, attention is being drawn to the powers which government will have ...

As organisations committed to defending privacy and freedom of expression rights, we are writing in response to reports that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (‘IPT’) will be hearing Apple’s appeal ...

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.

A new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in protecting the public privacy and data rights during the Covid-19 pandemic.