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The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the ...
The motion laid down by Labour says: That this House deplores the growth in child abuse images online; deeply regrets that up to one and a half million people have seen such images; notes with alarm ...
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 ...
Online Safety Bill: International organisations, academics and cyber experts urge UK government to protect encrypted messaging Over 80 civil society organisations, academics and cyber experts from 23 ...
The digital rights landscape Data protection rights Improving data rights gives people more control and protection over their data. Platform power Too much power in the digital world lies with a ...
Dear Lord Justice Singh, 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 ...
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 ...
ORG warns of threat to privacy and free speech as Online Safety Bill is passed Open Rights Group has warned that Online Safety Bill, which has been passed in parliament, will make us less secure by ...
Data sharing It will be easier for organisations to share data meaning that data collected for one reason can be shared with public authorities and private companies who may use it for something ...
About the complaints Mr Killock previously complained to the ICO about online advertising privacy practices in 2018. Now, an investigation commissioned by Open Rights Group, carried out by independent ...
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, politicians have spent 4 years criticising the use of personal data for political campaigning, particularly on social media. Here, for the first time, ORG lifts ...
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, ...