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What are your digital rights under the law? How can we challenge surveillance by the police and corporations? We have two expert speakers to talk about recent developments.

On Wednesday 13 June the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office (SICO) published their intervention…

The Supreme Court ruled today that trade mark holders must bear the cost of blocking websites which sell counterfeit versions of their goods, rather than passing those costs on to Internet service providers.

The Supreme Court has today ruled that trade mark holders are not able to compel Internet service providers to bear the cost of implementing orders to block websites selling counterfeit goods.

We'll be watching the 'Do Not Track' series which explores the ways in which our data is being stored, categorized and monitored by companies and governments. Each video will be 5-10 minutes and we will discuss them as we progress.

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 (local events to attend or events we organise).

Open Rights Group today released figures that show that High Court injunctions are being improperly administrated by ISPs and rights holders.

It’s been an extremely busy March in the world of digital rights so let’s get right into it!

Join us to discuss current events in digital rights issues and ORG's campaign work. All are welcome to this free event.

On Thursday 10 May, the Justice Sub-Committee on Policing in the Scottish Parliament took evidence from Police Scotland on its use of “Cyber Kiosks”, mobile phone forensic technology that acts as a “window” into an individual’s phone. The hearing acted as a ‘window’ into Police Scotland’s worrying approach to technology adoption.

We'll have a visit from ORG legal officer Alex Haydock to do a talk on Tor. There will be opportunities to discuss current affairs and topics of interest. We'll also discuss an event we are planning in September and have an update on ORG campaigning activities and how you can get involved.

Today the House of Commons is likely to pass a Data Protection Bill. The Bill includes an immigration exemption that denies people access to their data exactly when they need it the most. The Open Rights Group and the3million are launching a legal challenge to force the Government to remove this exemption, and are asking for support to fund this claim.

Last month, we responded to the BBFC’s Age Verification consultation. Top of our concerns was the lack of privacy safeguards to protect the 20 million plus users who will be obliged to use Age Verification tools to access legal content.

Please join us for our public outreach & information stall about protecting free speech online. Set up begins at 9:30am and we'll be up and running at 10:30am. All are welcome to help out or to simply stop by and get some information.

From Amber Rudd’s resignation and the Windrush scandal to GDPR and Cambridge Analytica, today’s headlines…

Last Friday - 27 April 2018 - the High Court delivered its judgment in a challenge brought by human rights…

The focus of this meeting will be on final preparations for out publicity stall at Hayhill on Saturday 12th May.

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 (local events to attend or events we organise).

ORG's response to the BBFC's April 2018 consultation on their age verification guidelines under the Digital Economy Act.

Today we are publishing our response to the BBFC consultation on age verification for online pornography. We're calling on the BBFC to tell the Government about the dangers of the policy.

Today, Google release their latest transparency report, for Youtube takedowns. It contains information about the number of government requests for terrorist or extremist content to be removed. For a number of years, the government has promoted the idea that terrorist content is in rampant circulation, and that the amount of material is so abundant that the UK police alone are taking down up to 100,000 pieces of content a year.

ORG Glasgow will have an interactive booth at Scottish PEN's event at Glasgow University. Learn about new threats to free expression, and how the UK Gov is coercing social media companies into policing free speech online.

Scotland, unlike England, Wales and Northern Ireland, does not have an independent body overseeing the…

Could new plans to make Britain "the safest place in the world to be online" have unintended consequences? Hear from ORG campaigns manager Mike Morel and legal officer Alex Haydock about how the Government is working with social media companies to decide acceptable standards for online content. Learn how heavy fines encourage the use of not-so-smart filters that can silence free speech, and how murky definitions of 'harmful content' give social media companies unprecedented control over free expression. No experience is necessary to attend this FREE event.

Your brainpower is needed urgently to put together a display on threats to free speech online, including Age Verification, which will attract the attention and participation of passers-by. We can view the available materials and discuss how to arrange them, whether we need any more and if we can offer passers-by hands-on digital experience. We'll also need to draw up a preliminary rota of people to run the stall.

The EU’s draft Directive on Copyright is a massive problem. It is an attempt by the EU to reform copyright legislation - in practice it effectively involves a huge ‘censorship machine’ which would filter all uploads from people in the EU to determine if they are infringing on copyright.

Could new plans to make Britain "the safest place in the world to be online" have unintended consequences? Hear from ORG campaigns manager Mike Morel and legal officer Alex Haydock about how the Government is working with social media companies to decide acceptable standards for online content. Learn how heavy fines encourage the use of not-so-smart filters that can silence free speech, and how murky definitions of 'harmful content' give social media companies unprecedented control over free expression. No experience is necessary to attend this FREE event.

Could new plans to make Britain "the safest place in the world to be online" have unintended consequences? Hear from ORG campaigns manager Mike Morel, legal officer Alex Haydock about how the Government is working with social media companies to decide acceptable standards for online content. Learn how heavy fines encourage the use of automated censors that hurt free speech, and how murky definitions of 'harmful content' give social media companies unprecedented control over free expression. No experience is necessary to attend this FREE event.

It’s been an extremely busy March in the world of digital rights so let’s get right into it!

Facebook Tracking Exposed (FTE) is a browser extension which intends to find out - but you won't find it in the chrome store because Facebook have issued a takedown request.