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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.

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 ...

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

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 ...

ORG report finds that ICO failed to hold the government to account over use of public health data during pandemic ORG’s new report exposes failures by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in ...

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, ...

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.