Under the guise of protecting free speech, an alarming alignment between government power and Big Tech’s corporate power is ...

Migrants from outside the EU have physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These can be physical cards, such as Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) ...

From 1 January 2025, people who have right to remain in the UK must have an e-Visas to apply for work, apply to use housing and other services, and to re-enter the UK. Other documents such as ...

It’s been another busy year for digital rights, with the added excitement of an earlier than expected General Election! Here are some of the key moments from 2024. Our report Prevent and the Pre-Crime ...

The Home Office has published its latest Prevent referral figures, which show a slight increase in the rise in referrals compared to last year. As with previous years, the figures show that the vast ...

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 ...

What’s legal to say should be legal to type. The Online Safety Act and changes to the definition of extremism could change that. The bloated Online Safety Act contains many risks to free speech – a ...

The Board of Directors oversees Open Rights Group’s work, which includes staffing, fundraising and responsibility for policy.

Since joining Open Rights Group in January 2009, Jim has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive ...

Ben Laurie is a software engineer, cryptographer and Director of Security and Transparency at Google. He is a founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL, a ...

Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online. We fight for a fair digital ...