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PALANTIR HAS NEGATIVE REPUTATION—CAUTION AND TRANSPARENCY NEEDED Reacting to news that surveillance…

From enabling strategies to curb the virus to empowering individuals to connect and work from home, digital…

Dear Prime Minister and Secretary of State for International Trade, The United States Trade Representative…

We are living in an unprecedented historical moment. Although public health is everyone’s first priority,…

At Open Rights Group (ORG), we want the government to succeed in its pursuit of the eradication of Coronvirus COVID-19. We know that means that government will want to use data to understand the impacts of its policies on the progress of the disease, and to anticipate what new measures it needs to take.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Following the news that the Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of creating…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The House of Lords Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee have received…

The UK government has set out its plans and priorities for the negotiations of a free trade agreement with the US. Here we explain some of the main issues in the digital trade chapters of these deals and outline our positions.

In February Open Rights Group (ORG) continued the fight for UK digital rights by standing up for encryption,…

Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect fundamental…

Moving UK users’ data to the USA makes bulk surveillance easier, and data protection harder.

At the moment, the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR) is an important piece of legislation protecting personal data, but it is European, not UK law. There is therefore a certain amount of concern about what might happen to data protection in the UK in the future, but there also seems to be some confusion about what is happening now.

Appointing state regulator for online speech creates censorship incentives: ‘duty of care’ is vague and an undefined concept

Open Rights Group, responding to today’s reports of a child's rights groups letter to Facebook, responded:

  Amendments made to the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Bill have strengthened the status of the proposed…

Last week I attended the ‘Computers, Privacy and Data Protection’ annual conference in Brussels. It consisted…

Last summer, Open Rights Group gave oral evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Electoral…

Open Rights Group organised a panel discussion on whether Ethical Ad-Tech is possible at the CPDP 2020 conference in Brussels.

Dear Members of Parliament, Save Data Protection Today, Tuesday 28 January 2020 is Data Protection…

The Open Rights Group have today - International Data Protection Day – called on all MPs to pledge to uphold data privacy standards.

The ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code released today includes changes which lessen the risk of widespread age gates, but retains strong incentives towards greater 'age gating' of content.

Judicial Review launched by Tech companies to force Age Verification for adult content under the Digital Economy Act 2016 to start would endanger privacy.

Responding to ICO's announcement today that the regulator is taking minimal steps to enforce the law against massive data breaches taking place in the online ad industry through "Real-Time Bidding", complainants Jim Killock and Michael Veale have called on the regulator to enforce the law.

Following Police Scotland’s announcement that they will be rolling out cyber kiosks to police stations across Scotland. Open Rights Group and Privacy International have released a statement:

Information Commissioner Wycliffe HouseWater Lane, Wilmslow Dear Elizabeth Denham, Re: The adtech industry…

A report released today shows that Adtech in mobile apps is sharing user data far and wide, through adtech systems that include sensitive information such as sexuality, drug use, political views.

A poll commissioned by civil society organisation Open Rights Group has highlighted a worrying lack of national awareness around nefarious online campaigning activities.

INTRODUCTION Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to…

From tech’s threats to UK democracy to the ad industry’s continued abuse of our personal data, digital…

Evidence from the 2019 General Election shows that the need to overhaul the system of electoral administration…