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Save Encryption to Keep Us Safe
The Online Safety Bill requires ALL online speech to be monitored for “harmful content”, including your private conversations with friends and family.
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No state censorship of online speech
What’s legal to say should be legal to type – a government regulator shouldn’t control your speech, online or off – yet the new Online Safety Bill could lead to just that, or worse.
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Mass Surveillance
04 Aug 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
How the Online Safety Bill puts a spy in your pocket
The deployment of client-side scanning on private messaging systems was trailed in a recent research paper published by the technical directors of GCHQ and the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC).
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02 Aug 2022 By Sahdya Darr
Migrant Digital Justice Toolkit
How-to-fight data discrimination – launching a new toolkit for the migrants’ rights sector
The Migrant Digital Justice Programme (MDJP) at ORG is proud to launch our Migrant Digital Justice Toolkit.
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21 Jul 2022 By James Baker
How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill affects you
Nadine Dorries and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sports (DCMS) have released their Data Protection and Digital Information Bill– Our policy expert Mariano deli Santi has produced his initial analysis ‘Data the Wrong Direction’ of the implications.
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14 Jul 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
MPs must rethink this dire Bill
The government has delayed further debate on the Online Safety Bill until the Autumn.
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