Last year, over a thousand people pledged a fiver a month to help us set up the Open Rights Group - an organisation to publicise and fight for civil liberties in the digital world.
So far, we have around 500 supporters who have been true to their pledge and are giving us a fiver each month. [...]

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Thanks very much to Denise Wilton, Chris Morrison and their collaborators both on and off the Haddock mailing list for designing the new ORG logo. If you want to have a stab at a new WordPress themes, or ’support ORG’ buttons, then email me for a zip of all versions.

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Unfortunately, we’ve been having some technical difficulties with the ORG servers over the last couple of weeks, resulting in the Discussion list going down. We are trying to get this fixed as soon as possible. Sorry about the outage!

UPDATE: Org lists back up again!
We’ve actually moved the ORG lists on to a new server, so [...]

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Cory Doctorow, ORG Advisory Council member, famous novelist, copyright activist and one of the driving forces behind BoingBoing, has kindly donated a Razr mobile phone and a signed first edition of his novel Eastern Standard Tribe, to the Open Rights Group for us to auction. We have duly put both together as one lot on [...]

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The Open Rights Group has now become a provisional member of European Digital Rights (EDRi), a coalition of 21 privacy and civil rights organisations from 14 different countries. Says the EDRi site:
Members of European Digital Rights have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society. The need for cooperation among European organizations is [...]

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If you are interested in keeping up to date with ORG goings on, there are two mailing lists that you can join:
ORG-announce is a low volume announcement list where we will, from now on, announce our events, publish news, and generally let you know what is happening.
ORG-discuss is a medium volume discussion list [...]

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Is ORG a charity?
No, charities are banned from political lobbying. Instead, ORG has been incorporated as a company limited by guarantee, Company No. 05581537.
I want to set up my own standing order with my own online banking. Can I do this?
Yes. Please fill in our form, then choose Standing Order option, and the system [...]

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Whether you pledged to support this project or whether you didn’t. We’ve now shaken our internal systems into a state where they might not be pretty, but they should work, and you can now follow through on your promise and support the project financially via paypal, standing order or cheque.
https://secure.openrightsgroup.org/support/
You can read more about levels [...]

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Spent a bit of time today working on the ORG wiki, so if you have a bit of time to add more information to it, that’d be superb. In particular, I’ve added a resources page and an issues page, both of which could do with expansion.

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We had one of those moments last week when we realised that, because almost everyone involved in ORG has bucketfuls of experience of designing and launching websites (indeed, I started working as a web designer/developer in ‘98, and I can do this shit with my hands tied behind my back), the one thing that had [...]

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