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On Thursday 19th March we're giving our membership and campaign funding one big boost: Take part in #digitalrightsmatter day.

Today there is a debate on the Scottish National Identity Database a little after 2pm.

Politicians are often deaf to arguments against mass surveillance. They will talk about encryption as if it’s for criminals, and tell people that “if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear”.

The Oscar and BAFTA winning CITIZENFOUR will be shown on Channel 4 tonight. The film shows the scale of the surveillance undertaken by the intelligence agencies behind our backs, and the story of Edward Snowden.

On January 10 we launched a new campaign to fund our election work. Today we are 50% of the way there! Read about why we are doing it and how you can help.

Both Green and Labour MSPs asked questions yesterday to question the plans to convert the NHS Register into a Scottish National Identity Database. The responses though were rather lacking. Patrick Harvie, from the Greens, asked a question yesterday about the plans:

Deputy First Minister John Swinney today failed to address the concerns of privacy campaigners over Scottish…

Many ORG supporters have received replies from SNP members of the Scottish Parliament over the ID database. The letter, no doubt drafted by civil servants, is rather shallow and fails to address the key points that the campaign has been raising.

Come and work for ORG Scotland!

Government proposals to expand the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) will pave the way…

Parliamentary report on antisemitism calls for protection orders used to ban sex offenders from using the internet to be extended to hate crime. But these should be used to prevent serious harm, not as punishment for hate speech in general.

A minor, barely noticed consultation is not the way to make a major change to Scottish citizens’ privacy and their relationship with the state. Under a change to the Scottish NHS customer database, the Scottish Government will turn the database into a national register of Scottish citizens and their address, linked to a unique number assigned to each person—much as Labour intended to do with ID Cards.

Today the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) found that the secret intelligence sharing between the…

Mass surveillance isn't the security blanket that politicians are holding it up to be. For many people surveillance makes them less safe.

Green MEP Jean Lambert has released a new collection of essays by a number of authors who are concerned about TTIP - the proposed trade deal between the EU and the USA. This is our article for the collection about digital rights concerns about TTIP.

ORG and Privacy International have filed a second submission in the judicial review proceedings against the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA). We argue that the legislation is contrary to EU law, in particular Article 15 of the E-Privacy Directive. The intervention draws the Court’s attention to (i) the substantial and carefully calibrated EU rules in the field of data retention, (ii) the seriousness of data retention as an interference with the relevant Charter of Fundamental Rights and European Convention on Human Rights rights and (iii) the inconsistency between the relevant provisions and the strict requirements of EU law.

Can you take part in our member referral scheme and help ORG grow this year?

Yesterday’s Lords debate ended up with the future of the Snooper’s Charter amendments uncertain, after considerable criticism of both the process and the principle of reintroducing the Communications Data Bill into the Counter Terrorism and Security Bill. Further debate on the amendments may come back at the report stage of the Bill.

This month we respond to a series of threats to digital rights as Lords attempt to slip in the Snoopers' Charter as 18 pages of amendments and David Cameron proposes harming encryption.

Laying eighteen pages of clauses before the Lords to insert the Snoopers' Charter into an already complicated bill is an abuse of procedure. The Lords cannot have time to properly consider the bill, and would deny the Commons the opportunity to consider the clauses as well.

Web-filters should be opt-in only. It's fine to offer them but it's wrong to force them on people.

Response to the Home Office's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Consultation: Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Data and Retention of Communications Data Codes of Practice

David Cameron put surveillance onto the agenda for the General Election earlier this week. In response to the atrocities committed in Paris against Charlie Hebdo journalists.

Help ORG fight mass surveillance this election year.

Is David Cameron really attacking the idea of encryption of our everyday communications? Is what he is suggesting even remotely possible?

The following letters by ORG Advisory Council members Paul Bernal and Simon Phipps were published in the Evening Standard on 12 January.

Open Rights Group has called on the Prime Minister to provide more details about his plans to give the…

It is still too early to say what could and couldn't have been done to prevent the murder of 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris on Wednesday

This week ORG signed up to an amicus curiae brief prepared by lawyers for Digital Rights Ireland in the ‘Microsoft warrant case’.

ORG has prepared a table showing the status of data retention in the EU in December 2014, following the CJEU's decision in the Digital Rights Ireland case.