Privacy

Blog

• June 14, 2013 | Blog
  EU Commission caved to US demands to drop anti-PRISM privacy clause

  ...and how European policy makers can undo their mistake.

• June 13, 2013 | Blog
  Baroness Ludford's proposals take away your privacy choices

  Many amendments proposed by Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Ludford to the Data Protection Regulation would leave us with less control of our personal information. In this post, we focus on consent and loopholes.

• June 12, 2013 | Blog
  Baroness Ludford amendment - opening the door to FISAAA?
• June 07, 2013 | Blog
  PRISM: The FISAAA smoking gun
• May 17, 2013 | Blog
  Taking the privacy message to MEPs
• May 14, 2013 | Blog
  Naked Citizens: Protect your Privacy!
• May 13, 2013 | Blog
  EE and sale of user data: does Anonymisation work?
• May 13, 2013 | Blog
  EE selling your data to pollsters and police
• April 29, 2013 | Blog
  Digital Surveillance: how to avoid another Snoopers' Charter
• April 26, 2013 | Blog
  Digital Surveillance video
• April 08, 2013 | Blog
  Data Protection Regulation Debate
• March 26, 2013 | Blog
  Will bloggers be protected? Maybe – if your blog is “small”
• March 23, 2013 | Blog
  “Gaming” can be avoided: bloggers can be protected from the Crime and Courts Bill
• March 21, 2013 | Blog
  Meeting Hacked Off
• March 19, 2013 | Blog
  Royal Charter or Star Chamber For Stars?
• March 07, 2013 | Blog
  Snoopers' Charter: We need a consultation!
• February 05, 2013 | Blog
  Golden Eye write to alleged copyright infringers
• December 12, 2012 | Blog
  How the Home Office let their Minister down
• December 11, 2012 | Blog
  Joint Committee slams Home Office's Snoopers' Charter
• November 30, 2012 | Blog
  Data protection debate at MoJ
• November 14, 2012 | Blog
  Come to our Snooper's Charter campaign event!
• October 11, 2012 | Blog
  Party conferences and the Comms Data Bill
• October 03, 2012 | Blog
  Digital Economy Act: Costs Order debate pulled
• July 18, 2012 | Blog
  Snooper's Charter: a Bill without a proposal
• May 23, 2012 | Blog
  Is the government’s transparency agenda hitting the rocks?
• March 27, 2012 | Blog
  A blow for speculative invoicing?
• March 16, 2012 | Blog
  Lessig, Doctorow, Seltzer - ORGCon tickets selling fast!
• January 31, 2012 | Blog
  Protecting Internet users from tracking and profiling
• January 23, 2012 | Blog
  UK Mobile operators censor privacy tool 'Tor'
• November 03, 2010 | Blog
  Ministry of Sound abandon file sharing dragnet
• October 28, 2010 | Blog
  Misinformation about mass surveillance

Reports and Correspondence

• January 11, 2013 | Report
  Response to Ofcom white space consultation

  A short response to the Ofcom white space device proposal covering a couple of points we are concerned need greater consideration.

• December 18, 2012 | Report
  Response to the DfE National Pupil Database consultation
• December 11, 2012 | Report
  Briefing on the Joint Committee's final report into the draft Communications Data Bill
• September 28, 2012 | Report
  Response to the Midata consultation
• September 28, 2012 | Report
  Response to the ICO consultation on the draft anonymisation code of practice
• June 29, 2012 | Report
  Communications Data Bill – aka the 'Snooper's Charter'
• May 23, 2012 | Report
  Public Administration Committee: Open Data strategy
• April 05, 2012 | Speeches and talks
  Civil Society on the Internet, Onassis Centre, Athens
• March 06, 2012 | Report
  MoJ Data Protection call for evidence
• December 07, 2011 | Report
  Open Data, Privacy and Anonymisation Briefing
• November 21, 2011 | Report
  Submission to Universal Periodic Review
• October 18, 2010 | Report
  Call for evidence: Data Protection Act

Campaigns

• Stop Phorm (2009, inactive)

Press Releases

• May 28, 2013 | Press Release
  Mobile phone data for sale

  Committee Room 6, House of Commons , London SW1A 0AA Wednesday, June 5, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

• December 07, 2012 | Press Release
  GoldenEye appeal on Monday: ORG reaches £5k funding goal
• October 16, 2012 | Press Release
  ORG congratulates CNIL
• October 11, 2012 | Press Release
  Neelie Kroes is right to demand DNT action

Media

• April 10, 2013 | Audio/Video
  Judith Rauhofer: ORGCon North 2013

  Giving a preview of her talk, Judith Rauhofer goes through her view of Data Protection Regulation she will go in depth in the ORGCon North. More previews to come.

• April 09, 2013 | Audio/Video
  David Smith: ORGCon North 2013

  Giving a preview of his talk, David Smith goes through his view of the Data Protection Regulation he will go in depth in the ORGCon North.

• April 08, 2013 | Audio/Video
  Data Protection Regulation Debate: part 2
• April 05, 2013 | Audio/Video
  Phil Booth: ORG Con North 2013
• April 03, 2013 | Audio/Video
  James Baker: ORGCon North 2013
• April 02, 2013 | Audio/Video
  Podcast: Data Protection Regulation Debate 1st part
• December 05, 2012 | Audio/Video
  Cory Doctorow talks about ORG's work

Zine

written by and for ORG supporters expressing their personal views

• June 18, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Prism Break

  Wendy Grossman looks at the issue of privacy policies, and suggests that the system must be 'fixed' in order for users to completely understand what information they are signing away.

• May 14, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Google Glass: just because you can…

  Paul Bernal weighs out the privacy implications that are set to arise from the new Google Glass creation.

• April 17, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Cautiously apocalyptic
• March 26, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Facts are Scared
• February 12, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Bug-a-boo
• February 05, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Privacy in the balance - as always!
• January 29, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  Blog giveaways used to be simple
• January 28, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy
• January 22, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  A Year After SOPA, A Look At The Next Five Battles For Internet Freedom
• January 08, 2013 | Zine (personal views)
  The antitrust time warp
• September 26, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  The lesson we must never forget
• September 25, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Sock Puppets: A Necessary Evil
• September 25, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  This is not (just) about Google
• September 19, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Looking for a Job goes Orwellian
• September 17, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  What did you learn in school today?
• August 28, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Three things I learned at the Turing Festival
• August 13, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Wiped Out
• July 31, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Germany Sets New Record for Waving Anti-Privacy Legislation Through Parliament
• July 06, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Musubi Tackles Privacy
• July 04, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  June Retrospective
• July 03, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Cake or Death?
• June 20, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Think of the Children!
• June 18, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  A License to Print Money
• June 15, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Firewalling child rights in the name of "protection"
• June 12, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  German Agency Wants to Snoop Social Networks to Analyse Creditworthiness
• June 11, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Your data, Your decision
• June 11, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Insecure at Any Speed
• June 01, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  The Web Balancing Act – Privacy vs Personalization
• May 28, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Camera Obscura
• May 23, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  The Right to be Forgotten
• May 16, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Murdoch –Up the Creek without a Paddle?
• April 23, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Data Gathering – What are the benefits?
• April 04, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Oi! Lib Dems! Are you listening?
• March 12, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Private Parts
• February 02, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Commission Proposes Stronger Data Privacy Legislation
• January 30, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Principle Failure
• January 09, 2012 | Zine (personal views)
  Only the paranoid
• December 27, 2011 |
  Duck Amuck
• December 19, 2011 |
  Location, location, location
• September 30, 2011 |
  Trust Exercise