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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this report, we analyse the Online Safety Act (OSA or ‘the Act’) 2023, which imposes new duties on online service providers to protect children from harmful content, and Ofcom’s guidance to ...

ORG submits complaints about intrusive LiveRamp adtech system Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de ...

What’s the Harm in the Online Safety Bill? Throughout the development of the government’s Online Harms policy, a central concern of ORG and other human rights organisations is how any legally mandated ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Open Rights Group has warned that Online Safety Bill, which has been passed in parliament, will make us less secure by threatening our privacy and undermining our freedom of expression.

The Intelligence and Security Committee has published the findings of its Privacy and Security Inquiry.

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 ...