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

You can chat to people who are interested in Open Rights Group and digital rights issues on the ORG IRC…

Today we've published on our about page a new definition of the world we want to see, explaining how we are working to achieve our aims.

The Don’t Spy On Us campaign welcomes the speech by Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and her calls for reform of the oversight and legal frameworks for surveillance. Yet, the question for Labour is whether they will back our campaign’s 6 principles for reform.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-02-24. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

The Information Commissioner's Office is asking for feedback on their Code of Practice on 'anonymisation', but the survey does not ask the right questions. We explain the issues.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-02-17. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-02-10. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

"Millions of people still don't have a clue that their family's medical records are about to be uploaded in identifiable form to a body they've never heard of, to be used for things other than their medical care - including being passed to companies outside the NHS." -- Phil Booth, medConfidential.

Today, alongside an unprecedented coalition of leading privacy and human rights groups, we're launching Don't Spy On Us. We need your help.

In this edition of the newsletter we announce big success in our legal fundraising, and our Privacy Not Prism case. Plus how you can defend your medical privacy and join the Day We Fight Back campaign.

On Tuesday, internet users all over the world are standing up to say no to GCHQ and the NSA's mass surveillance.…

ORG's submission to the Intelligence and Security Committee's Privacy and Security Inquiry, February 2014. (PDF)

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-02-03. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Over 200 people joined ORG – raising enough to pay for two extra days so we can hire a full time Legal Director.

We are lawyers who work with the Open Rights Group. You and the Open Rights Group can make a huge difference in the UK and European courts, defending your digital rights.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-01-27. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

I’m writing this blog today ORG has an unprecedented opportunity to make a difference to the world's digital future -- a chance to argue before the European Court of Human Rights in coalition with Big Brother Watch and English PEN, in a crucial case over GCHQ's lawless program of indiscriminate, total Internet surveillance.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-01-20. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Campaigners have welcomed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to move quickly in determining whether the recently revealed internet surveillance programmes operated by GCHQ are in breach of the law.

The NHS has been going through some fairly radical changes. This will affect who can see your medical records and what they can do with them.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-01-13. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is now involved in how mobile internet filtering works. In this post we explain what role they have and how you should be able to get over-blocking problems fixed.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2014-01-06. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Tomorrow MEPs on the European Parliament's civil liberties committee will present their draft report on the Internet surveillance of the UK and USA as well as other EU states. Its recommendations are damning and the UK Government comes in for particularly strong criticism.

Following complaints, media attention and misunderstandings surrounding O2's URL checker and categories, O2 have switched it off, with no timescale for reinstatement.

This weekend showed that the debate on blocking is getting serious and worrying. We aren’t being given any of the information we need to check what is happening as a result of new filtering tools. We don’t know what, how or why sites are blocked. We need to know, and you can help.

Concerns are growing over exactly what filters are doing, and what information is blocked for adults and children.

This is ORG's Parliamentary Update for the week beginning 2013-12-16. If you are reading this online, you can also subscribe to the email version.

Yesterday's Newsnight has helped demonstrate once again that over blocking by ISPs internet filtering systems is a real and serious issue. We've told the 'UKCCIS' over-blocking group how ISPs should start dealing with the problem.