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Government announces 15 July 2019 launch date for dangerous and irresponsible age verification scheme, without compulsory privacy scheme.

The ICO Age Appropriate Design Code of Conduct is now available for consultation

After months of waiting and speculation, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published its White Paper on Online Harms - now appearing as a joint publication with the Home Office. The expected duty of care proposal is present, but substantive detail on what this actually means remains sparse: it would perhaps be more accurate to describe this paper as pasty green.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) today published its long-awaited White Paper on Online Harms.

Your digital rights update on all things ORG.

Tuesday 26 March 2019 - Today the European Union’s Copyright Directive was approved in a decisive vote by the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Age Verification for porn websites is supposed to be introduced in April 2019. Age Verification comes with significant privacy risks, and the potential for widespread censorship of legal material.

The US government has published its negotiating objectives for a trade deal with the UK, which include some worrying proposals on digital trade, including a ban on the disclosure of source code and algorithms, and potential restrictions on data protection.

The UK is expected to leave the EU in less than four working weeks’ time. Roughly 3 million EU citizens reside in the UK. These two facts are not unrelated.

The following is an excerpt from the report UK Internet Regulation Part I: Internet Censorship in the UK Today.

From a shocking new development in our complaint against Google’s advertising practice to a breakthrough in our legal challenge against mass surveillance, February was a month to remember.

The following is an excerpt from the report UK Internet Regulation Part I: Internet Censorship in the UK Today.

The following is an excerpt from the report UK Internet Regulation Part I: Internet Censorship in the UK Today.

Following a roundtable meeting with Age Verification providers, the Open Rights Group (ORG) has demanded that the British Board for Film Classification (BBFC) meet with ORG to discuss their privacy scheme, which BBFC hope will protect some visitors to pornographic websites.

Today Open Rights Group met a number of age verification providers to discuss the privacy standards that they will be meeting when the scheme launches, slated for April. Up to 20 million UK adults are expected to sign up to these products.

In all the outrage and column inches generated by DCMS' Disinformation and 'fake news' report campaigners for political office and representatives of political parties have failed to acknowledge one of the most critical actors in personal data and political campaigning: themselves.

The following is an excerpt from the report UK Internet Regulation Part I: Internet Censorship in the UK Today.

Issue This briefing addresses the automated data checks within the EU Settlement Scheme (“the scheme”),…

The following is an excerpt from the report UK Internet Regulation Part I: Internet Censorship in the UK Today.

Hiding behind the shield of its connecter patents, the printer manufacturing giant Epson continues to shut down small UK businesses by requiring eBay and Amazon to take down compatible ink cartridge listings.

2018 was a pivotal year for data protection. First the Cambridge Analytica scandal put a spotlight on…

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, English PEN, computer science expert Dr Constanze Kurz and several other human rights organisations’ case against mass surveillance by the UK government.

There is every reason to believe that the government and opposition are moving to a consensus on introducing…

Fancy a break from Brexit? Here are some important updates about Open Rights Group’s recent work. IMMIGRATION…

A key aspect of Brexit is the future of trade policy. The Government  has committed to abandon the UK’s…

By: Jim Killock (Open Rights Group) Johnny Ryan (Brave) Katarzyna Szymielewicz (Panoptykon Foundation) Michael Veale (University College London)

Today is the 13th annual Data Protection Day in Europe and the first since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force last May. We are publishing new research today about the public understanding of GDPR and what it means for how organisations communicate about how they use data.

  Introduction Research methods Section 1: How people understand data protection and their rights Key…

  If you have a complaint about Open Rights Group we want to hear about it. We will always do our best…

Link to video and transcript of oral evidence on HoL internet regulation enquiry by Javier Ruiz and Myles Jackman