FIGHTING FOR YOUR RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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.
We fight for a fair digital environment where technology supports justice, equality and freedom. We campaign, lobby, go to court – whatever it takes to challenge restrictions to our human rights.
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40k+
Number of ORG members and supporters
10
The number of cities in the UK with active ORG local groups
£33k+
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Free expression online
04 Mar 2025 By Jim Killock
Save our Sites: Deadline 17 March
Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators their homes.
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Mass Surveillance
03 Mar 2025 By Alexander Dolphin
Queercryption: Safety in Numbers
We deserve to live free from persecution.
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Mass Surveillance
24 Feb 2025 By Alexander Dolphin
The Case for Encryption
Spying on private messages has long been on the security services’ wish list.
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Mass Surveillance
13 Feb 2025 By Sara Chitseko
Prevent Duty: Redefining terrorism in the wake of the Southport attacks
On 23 January 2025, 18 year old Axel Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years in prison for the horrific murder of three young girls and the attempted murder of eight other children, as well as two adults who tried to save them.
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