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The purpose of his workshop is to offer practical cybersecurity advice that ‘real people’, not just digital geeks, can understand and apply in their daily lives.

ORG has responded to the announcement by the CPS that they will treat online hate crime as seriously as offline offences.

Come join the group to discuss plans for the free screening of Internet’s Own Boy in mid-late September, get updates from Scotland Director Matthew Rice on current activities, and suggest topics and events for forthcoming public meetings.

ORG has signed this joint letter to the Metropolitan Police calling on them to scrap plans to use automated facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

This is a guest blog by Alec Muffett, a security researcher and member of ORG’s Board of Directors. Britain…

Open Rights Group has called on two bodies to review the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. It is vital that both bodies choose to review to explore freedom of information in Scotland from two distinct perspectives: politics, and law.

DCMS has sent a more complete document on GDPR to stakeholders

Join us for our monthly meetup to discuss: the current state of digital rights, what we've done in the past month, and what we are planning to do in the upcoming month.

ORG responds to the Government's statement of intent on a Data Protection Bill

It’s not for the home secretary to tell the public they don’t need encryption

Open Rights Group responds to Amber Rudd's comments on encryption today

We will be discussing the group's plans to organise a screening of 'The Internet's Own Boy' to tie in with the start of the academic year for Glasgow universities.

Tonight you can help rescue local businesses that are being removed from the Internet. It could be yours!

The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued an Opinion that an agreement over the transfer of Passenger Name Record data between Canada and the EU, “may not be concluded in its current form because several of its provisions are incompatible with the fundamental rights recognised by the EU”.

Would you like to chat about digital rights, hear about our plans for the month ahead, put forward some ideas or maybe even help out with the group? If so, we will be holding a regular monthly meeting / social starting this Thursday.

Open Rights Group has responded to the announcement that the Government has initiated plans for the age verification of porn websites.

If you want to take control over your energy usage but you are not sure whether connecting everything to the internet is a positive or a negative thing, this event about smart meters is for you. Presented by the Carbon Co-op.

The Queen's Speech included several worrying things for digital rights which we'll be challenging over the next few months. Thank you for helping to inform our work and carrying out our campaigns to ensure that our digital rights are protected.

Join us for a workshop where we'll be offering free practical advice for replacing (or at least supplementing) Google services with independent services which do a better job of respecting your privacy and reduce your dependence on the internet giant.

Join us in our monthly meetup to discuss: the current state of digital rights, what we've done in the past month, and what we are planning to do in the upcoming months

Come along to our privacy workshop and learn how to protect yourself from mass surveillance and online crime. This workshop is aimed at beginners, no prior knowledge or advanced technical skills are required.

Matthew Rice – our new Scotland Director – is visiting several local groups in Scotland over the next couple of weeks. Come along to meet Matthew and help shape upcoming work in ORG local groups in your area.

Come and meet new Scotland Director, Matthew Rice, and reconnect with ORG members, or come meet some for the very first time if you've never attended. It's a chance for people to figure out how we can work together to protect and promote digital rights.

Come and meet new Scotland Director, Matthew Rice, and reconnect with ORG members, or come meet some for the very first time if you've never attended. It's a chance for people to figure out how we can work together to protect and promote digital rights.

This AMA session is an opportunity to meet the new Scotland Director, Matthew Rice. Open Rights Group are making a direct investment in Scotland to work on issues affecting the country and influence debates in Scotland.

Join us for a group outing to see 'Risk', and to discuss Wikileaks, Assange and digital rights afterwards in the bar.

Decisions taken in Scotland, either by the Scottish Government, through representatives in Westminster, or in Brussels via Scots MEPs are going to be of more significance than ever before. In a political landscape where the direction of travel for powers is towards more devolution it is vital that Scotland is recognised as a society with different considerations, a shared history but possibly a different future to other parts of the UK.

First analyses of the Queen’s Speech are focussing on what isn’t included, as a weakened Conservative Government appears to have dropped a number of its manifesto commitments but there are several worrying things for digital rights. One welcome development could be data protection legislation, to fill the options in the GDPR.

Open Rights Group has responded to today's Queen’s Speech.

Members of the Don't Spy on Us coalition have agreed that they will no longer work together as a formal coalition.