It’s been another busy year for digital rights, with the added excitement of an earlier than expected General Election!

Open Rights Group (ORG) is a digital rights campaigning organisation. We are looking for someone to help manage our internal operations while our permanent Operations Manager is away on maternity ...

This amendment removes the secondary objectives introduced by the Data Use and Access Bill, which frame innovation, competition, crime prevention and national security as competing objectives against ...

Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI ...

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 has welcomed reports that the government is set to delay the rollout of its e-visa scheme, which was due to come into effect on January 1, 2025. Responding to the news, ORG’s Migrant ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Open Rights Group welcomes this as a positive development and a step ...

Javier Ruiz is a UK-based independent expert on digital rights with a focus on access to knowledge, transparency, privacy and ethics. He supports a variety of civil society organisations worldwide, ...

Sara is the Programme Manager for Pre-Crime at Open Rights Group, responsible for our projects covering predictive policing, counter-terrorism policy and technology. Before joining ORG, Sara worked ...