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
08 Oct 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
The ICO is leaving an AI enforcement gap in the UK
In response to our formal complaint to the ICO against Meta’s use of personal data to train Artificial Intelligence models without consent, the ICO has invited Open Rights Group (ORG) to a meeting to discuss our concerns.
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Digital Privacy
18 Sep 2024 By Jim Killock
e-Visas: The Next Digital Windrush Scandal
Our report, “Hostile and Broken” released today, explains why e-Visas risk creating tens or hundreds of thousands of errors, with people potentially turned down for jobs, or unable to enter the country, as the result of electronic failures of the new online, real time re-checking inherent in the UK e-Visa scheme.
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Digital Privacy
01 Aug 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
Light and Shadow of the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill
In what could be a new, welcomed development, Labour appear to have decided to narrow the scope of the data protection reform by … taking away the data protection parts.
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Digital Privacy
26 Jul 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
AI Regulation: Will Labour Promote Growth and Protect Rights?
In the King’s Speech, Labour committed to binding regulation on “the handful of companies developing the most powerful AI models” to ensure the safe developments of these technologies.
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