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Europe makes many of the laws that are shaping privacy and restricting surveillance. Data Protection, for instance, should guarantee that interception is lawful, rather than arbitrary.

At times the campaign to prevent default internet filters has bordered on the surreal, such as when the…

ORG is running a project to end the imposition of web blocking by ISPs and the Government. Here's how we're getting on and how you can get involved.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 07/04/2014 If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

In 2010, the coalition announced that they would roll back the surveillance state including the “Ending of storage of internet and email records without good reason”. The coalition is on the threshold of fulfilling that pledge - at least in relation to data held by ISPs. ISPs meanwhile need to clarify what they are doing now that the law is gone.

Letter sent to BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, asking for clarification of their data collection and retention policies after the Data Retention Directive is declared invalid

Yesterday’s invalidation of the Data Retention Directive opens up the question, what do the government and ISPs do next? Both are in a dubious legal situation now that data retention has no legal basis.

A number of the groups behind the Don't Spy On Us campaign have welcomed today's declaration by the European…

There was a major victory for privacy rights today when the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that…

Open Rights Group welcomed today’s declaration by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that the Data Retention…

There are two campaign events on 9 April in London for Don't Spy On Us supporters - one in Parliament and one at the London Book Fair.

We are delighted to announce that our Censorship Monitoring Project has reached and surpassed its funding goal.

While Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg kicked around old political footballs like immigration on Wednesday…

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 31/03/2014 If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Lord Younger sent ORG this letter in response to our recent campaign on copyright, parody and format shifting.

The European Parliament took a major step towards enshrining net neutrality in law today, when the EU…

Last month, we asked our Scottish supporters whether we should set up an office to deal with policies…

The UK’s out-of-date copyright law came closer to being fit for purpose yesterday, when the Government…

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 24/03/2014 If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Copyright is an important part of our legal framework. For many artists, it helps them control and negotiate profits flowing from the use of their work, in all kinds of media. Since the advent of digital technology, it has been hard to square the legal right to stop people copying text, pictures, video and audio with the technological realities. The global companies dependent on copyright revenues have also had a hard time learning that in the Internet era, customers are likely to decide the terms you play on, rather than the rights holders.

Good news! After pressure from ORG supporters over the last week, the Government has just published its proposed changes to copyright law.

Captain America, Marvel Comics' World War II supersoldier, is the star of Sky Broadband's latest advert. And he's taking a break from fighting 1940s comic book bad guys to promote Sky's default Internet filters.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 17/03/2014 If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

After the Conservative Chairman, Grant Shapps, tweeted an advert praising cuts to beer and bingo duty,…

This is a guest blog post by Emily Goodhand. You can find her on Twitter as @copyrightgirl As the Government…

The Digital Economy Act is stalled. But ISPs and rightsholders are apparently closing in on a voluntary letter writing scheme to replace it.

The neutrality of the internet is under threat after the European Parliament’s Industry Committee today…

Net neutrality is a fundamental aspect of the Internet as we know it. Right now all bits are treated…

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-03-10. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

In this edition of the newsletter we celebrate Don't Spy on Us success as Lib Dems and Labour respond to pressure. Plus updates on the Censorship Monitoring Project and the European copyright consultation.