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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.
ORG Review 2024 | Open Rights Group
1 day ago · Getting digital rights on the election agenda. Rishi Sunak’s decsion to call an early General Election took the country by surprise. Fortunately ORG had already consulted with our members and supporters to develop our digital rights 2024 manifesto, which many of our supporters shared with their MP candidates.. Along with human rights, migrant and justice rights organisation, we called on all ...
Who We Are - Open Rights Group
Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital rights organisation that campaigns to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world ...
Hands Off Our Data - Open Rights Group
Data protection rights protect people across all aspects of life – at work, using NHS services, applying for jobs or renting a flat. As the use of flawed and biased decision-making algorithms increases across every sector, data protection is particularly important for protecting the rights of marginalised groups, including migrants, LGBTQ people and people from racialised backgrounds.
Defend Online Speech - Open Rights Group
What’s legal to say should be legal to type. SUBMISSION TO PARLIAMENT Addressing automated, arbitrary, algorithmic censorship in the Online Safety BillJune 2022 Contents About Open Rights Group 2 Addressing automated, arbitrary algorithmic censorship 2 Our concerns and recommendations 2 Summary 3 Automated censorship and arbitrary restrictions 4 Content moderation systems 5 Arbitrary ...
Campaigns - Open Rights Group
ORG VICTORIES. From the Immigration Exception to the Covid-19 app, we’ve achieved a long list of victories in defence of our civil liberties in the digital age
Online Safety proposals could cause new harms warns Open …
May 8, 2024 · Ofcom’s proposals outline the implementation of age assurance systems, including photo-ID matching, facial age estimation, and reusable digital identity services, to restrict access to popular platforms like Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Google that might contain content deemed harmful to children.
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The Migrant Digital Justice programme empowers the migrants’ rights sector to challenge technologies used in immigration controls.
Online Safety Bill: International organisations, academics and cyber ...
Jun 26, 2023 · Notes to Editors . Tech companies have also raised concerns about the threat to privacy and security posed by private message scanning. In April, WhatsApp, Signal and Element and others, said that the Bill, “poses an unprecedented threat to the privacy, safety and security of every UK citizen and the people with whom they communicate around the world, while emboldening hostile governments ...
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Powers to imprison social media executives mirrors those exercised by Vladimir Putin in Russia Ministerial powers to censor legal content still in place Shifting bill promises more policy failures and disappointment Responding to the news of the Government’s republication of the draft Online Safety Bill, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, Jim Killock, said: “The fact that the ...