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

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 ...

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.

A nuisance is troubling the Internet and the digital life of Europeans: the consent or ‘cookie’ banner.

Briefing on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill If you are a migrant in the UK, asylum seeker, refugee or working on this issue, you should read this carefully.

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 ...

Open Rights Group’s investigation raises concerns about privacy and security of political parties’ canvassing apps. Our report illustrates how provisions in the Data Use and Access Bill could be ...

26 civil society organisations have written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, calling for the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill ...

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 ...

Rights groups call for Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.

Executive Summary The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

CIVIL SOCIETY COMMITTEE STAGE BRIEFING ON THE ONLINE SAFETY BILL FOR HOUSE OF LORDS: ILLEGAL CONTENT SAFETY DUTIES AND PRIOR RESTRAINT – Supported by Wikimedia UK, Index on Censorship, and Open Rights ...