The digital age is transforming society: we believe it has the capacity to bring us greater democracy, transparency and new creative and social possibilities. But our freedoms are also under attack in the digital world: from governments and vested business interests. So we campaign against threats to your rights.
We work on issues ranging from e-voting to copyright, open data and privacy.
We do this by talking to policy-makers and other activists and working with other campaign groups (both here and abroad). We raise the profile of these issues and present our arguments through conventional and social media. And of key importance, we mobilise our supporters take part in our campaigns, for example by contacting their MP.
And we depend on regular donations to run and win our campaigns. Why not become an Open Rights supporter and join us today.
Issues
- CCDP
- Communications Bill
- ACTA
- Section 127
- Copyright Reform
- Open Data
- Open Standards
- E-Counting
- Censorship
ORG People
In Depth
- Apr 29: Digital Surveillance
- Mar 13: Submission to DPP consultation on social media prosecutions
- Mar 6: Background on the Communications Data Bill
- Mar 1: Data Protection Regulation: Key amendments in the JURI Committee
- Feb 14: Data Protection Regulation: "LobbyPlag" briefing
- Feb 14: Data Protection Regulation: A brief guide to the issues
- Jan 11: Response to Ofcom white space consultation
- Jan 7: Response to Nominet direct.uk consultation
- Dec 18: Response to the DfE National Pupil Database consultation
- Dec 17: Parental controls and Internet filtering fact sheet
- Dec 11: Briefing on the Joint Committee's final report into the draft Communications Data Bill
- Nov 28: Leeds copyright event, RSA: What users say and do about intellectual property
- Nov 7: Response to the CMS committee inquiry on the creative economy
- Sep 28: Response to Ofcom's consultation on the Digital Economy Act Sharing of Costs Order
- Sep 28: Response to the Midata consultation
- Sep 28: Response to the ICO consultation on the draft anonymisation code of practice
Letters
- Apr 23: Open Letter to ISPs
- Mar 22: Joint letter in The Guardian on press regulation
- Dec 19: Joint letter in The Times on the Communications Data Bill
- Dec 18: Home Office letter on the draft Communications Data Bill
- Oct 17: A note to the Joint Committee regarding retrospective traffic decryption
- Sep 7: Open Letter to the Prime Minister regarding parental internet controls
- Jun 29: Digital Economy Act: first phishing attempt
- May 17: Letter from Civil Society to the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)
- Mar 21: ORG letter to Home Office about Richard O'Dwyer
- Mar 16: Letter from the Home Office to ORG concerning Richard O'Dwyer
- Jul 21: Freedom of Information request: Site blocking working group 15 June
- Nov 26: Home Office response to ORG complaint
Freedom of Information requests
- May 3: Proposals by search engines for action on copyright infringement, February 2012
- May 3: Minutes from DCMS roundtable on search engines and copyright, 28/2/2012
- May 3: Minutes from DCMS copyright roundtable, 22/2/2012





