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Secure the privacy of your phone messages
The Online Safety Bill empowers Ofcom to issue notices to providers of messaging services.
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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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20 Mar 2023 By Sophia Akram
What’s wrong with ‘gang’ surveillance in the UK?
Just over one year ago, ten young Black men were charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to GBH in Greater Manchester.
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08 Mar 2023 By Abigail Burke
International Women’s Day: We must challenge discrimination women face across the digital landscape
This International Women’s Day, ORG is celebrating the critical contributions made by the women on our staff (and all women across the digital rights space) to making technology, and in turn the world, more equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
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07 Mar 2023 By Abigail Burke
The Data Discrimination Bill attacks our data protection rights
Today, ORG sent an urgent open letter to Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology.
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15 Feb 2023 By Sophia Akram
UK Facial Recognition – No Consent, No Oversight
On 3 February 2023, the Wales cross-party group on digital rights and democracy – for which Open Rights Group serves as the secretariat – held its fourth session on surveillance and facial recognition technology in the UK.
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