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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Digital Privacy
13 May 2025 By Mariano delli Santi
Data Bill: First They Came for Trans People
On May 12, the Data (Use and Access) Bill, also known as the UK data protection reform, came back to the House of Lords for what was supposed to be its final stage.
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Mass Surveillance
01 May 2025 By Sara Chitseko
Why ‘Predictive’ Policing Must be Banned
The UK Government is trying to use algorithms to predict which people are most likely to become killers using sensetive personal data of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Digital Privacy
30 Apr 2025 By James Baker
What Do Political Parties Really Know About You?
This Thursday (1 May 2025), voters will go to the polls in 1,641 council seats across 24 local authorities.
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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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