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12 July, 2021
Privacy Campaigners condemn the Government for abdicating their responsibility
Responding to racist comments that were directed towards several England players following the team’s loss on penalties against Italy in the EURO 2020 final, Heather Burns, Policy Manager at the Open Rights Group, said:
“Illegal racial abuse sent to England’s footballers must be prosecuted under existing laws.
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17 June, 2021
Privacy Watchdog Condemns Government’s plan to axe Privacy Rights and Protections
Responding to the publication of a report yesterday by the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform which has outlined their vision to “refresh the UK’s approach to regulation now that we have left the EU”, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (ORG), Jim Killock, said:
“This so-called ‘independent report’ has been written by three conservative MPs, selected by a conservative Prime Minister to advise a conservative Government with the intention of canceling data protection altogether.
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14 June, 2021
ORG join over thirty digital and human rights organisations in calling on MPs to protect end-to-end encryption
Over thirty digital and human rights organisations call on MPs to keep their constituents safe by protecting end-to-end encryption from legislative threats
Today (14 June) Open Rights Group has joined over thirty digital and human rights organisations in calling on MPs to keep their constituents safe by protecting end-to-end encryption from legislative threats.
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26 May, 2021
Immigration Exemption judged unlawful, excessive, wrong by Court of Appeal
Today the court of appeal has unanimously found that the UK immigration exemption is incompatible with Article 23 of the GDPR.
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25 May, 2021
ECHR’s Judgment on UK Govt’s Mass Surveillance Program
Responding to the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the UK’s RIPA regime for bulk surveillance, Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group and one of the organisations challenging the UK’s activities before the European Court of Human Rights, said:
“The Court has recognised that Bulk Interception is an especially intrusive power, and that ‘end-to-end safeguards’ are needed to ensure abuse does not occur.
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12 May, 2021
Government’s Kafkaesque plans for regulating online speech is condemned
Responding to the Online Safety Bill, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“Treating online speech as inherently dangerous and demanding that risks are eliminated under the threat of massive fines is only going to end up in over-reaction and content removal.
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11 May, 2021
Queen’s Speech: Privacy and Rights Campaigning Group criticises Government’s anti-freedom legislative agenda
Embargo: Immediate
Responding to the Queen’s Speech, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
On the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill:
“Prime Minister’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill undermines any credibility as a self-identified libertarian.
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05 May, 2021
Facebook’s Oversight Board decision highlights need for independent scrutiny of Facebook’s decisions
Responding to Facebook’s Oversight Board uphelding Facebook’s decision made on January 7 to suspend then-President Trump from Facebook and Instagram, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“The oversight board have made some good recommendations, which emphasizes the need for independent scrutiny of Facebook’s decisions.
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30 April, 2021
Cross-party group of MPs warn Govt about unduly influencing Regulator’s appointment
Cross-party group of MPs warn Government about unduly influencing the appointment of the next Information Commissioner
In a letter to Oliver Dowden MP, the Secretary of State for DCMS, a cross-party group of MPs have warned the Government about ‘unduly influencing’ the process to appointment of the next Information Commissioner.
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19 April, 2021
Privacy Rights Campaigners warn against Home Office’s Orwellian war on Privacy
Responding to Home Secretary Priti Patel’s remarks asssociating end-to-end encryption with child abuse, delivered at a roundtable organised by the NSPCC, Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, said:
“Encryption, and end-to-end encryption, are basic security protocols deployed every minute.
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12 April, 2021
Government’s approach to NHS COVID-19 App is both a Privacy nightmare and a public health risk
Responding to news that an update to England and Wales’s contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement made with Apple and Google, Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, said:
“The Government’s proposed changes to the NHS App would have a significant impact on user privacy.
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01 April, 2021
Privacy Campaigners warn Boris of Home Office’s Dangerous and Orwellian impulses
Responding to Wired’s story that the Home Office is actively exploring legal and technical mechanisms to compel Facebook to circumvent end-to-end encrypted messaging in its platforms and apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, said:
“The Prime Minister is famed for his self-defined political identity as a “freedom-seeking libertarian”.
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04 March, 2021
Test and Trace is a privacy nightmare and a public health risk
Responding to the Sky News report that the check-in data from hundreds of millions of people who visited pubs, restaurants, and hairdressers between lockdowns was barely used by England’s ‘Test and Trace’ programme, Jim Killock, the Executive Director of Open Rights Group, said:
“The Government has repeatedly denied that it has any responsibilities for the data collected.
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03 March, 2021
Documents reveal controversial Immigration Exemption used in 70% of access requests to Home Office
Documents released today by the digital rights organisation Open Rights Group show that a controversial exemption in data protection law in the United Kingdom was used in over 70% of data access requests to the Home Office in 2020.
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23 February, 2021
PRIVACY CAMPAIGNERS URGE THE GOVERNMENT TO PROCEED WITH CAUTION ON VACCINE PASSPORTS
Responding to news that the Prime Minister has asked the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove to lead a review into the use of vaccine passports, Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (ORG), said:
“Vaccine passports have the potential to be extremely discriminatory and invasive of personal privacy.
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26 January, 2021
ICO’s Elizabeth Denham Confirms illegal racial voter profiling by the Conservative Party
Responding to ICO’s Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s confirmation of the Conservative Party’s illegal racial voter profiling, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said: [1]
“The Conservative Party’s racial profiling of voters was illegal.
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22 January, 2021
ICO INVESTIGATES ADTECH WITHOUT ORG COMPLAINT
Responding to ICO’s announcement today that the regulator is resuming invetigation of massive data breaches taking place in the online ad industry through “Real-Time Bidding”, ORG explain that this shows the ICO is wrong to have closed complaints by Jim Killock and Michael Veale against Adtech earlier this year.
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16 December, 2020
Open Rights Group appoints two new Directors to its Board
The UK’s premier privacy and digital rights campaigning organisation, the Open Rights Group (ORG) has appointed two heavy hitters to its already impressive Board of Directors.
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16 December, 2020
Facebook moving UK user agreements to USA is bad news for our privacy
Responding to news that Facebook will be soon shifting all its users in the UK into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in the US, reportedly making the change because EU’s privacy regime (which the UK follows) is among the World’s strictest, Jim Killock Executive Director of the Open Rights Group said:
“Moving data out of the EU makes it harder to enforce your privacy rights.
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10 December, 2020
Rights Organisations Warn Government on National Data Strategy
Privacy and Migrants’ rights organisations warn Government on negative impact of National Data Strategy on migrants and refugees
A group of migrants’ rights organisations and privacy advocates have written to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, Oliver Dowden, expressing concerns about how the National Data Strategy, in its current form, is likely to impact migrants and refugees.
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09 December, 2020
Privacy Campaigners warn Government against stopping FB messenger Encryption
Privacy Campaigners warn the Government against seeking injunction to halt Facebook’s Encryption plans
Responding to reports that Government could issue injunction against Facebook’s encryption plans, Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group said:
“Encryption is a vital tool to help people protect their personal messages.
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02 December, 2020
Cross Party group of MPs ask Government to spell out privacy risks in UK-Japan Trade Agreement
A cross-party group of MP’s have signed a letter condemning Government’s refusal to explain or publish legal analysis of articles affecting privacy in the proposed UK-Japan Trade Agreement.
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12 November, 2020
Privacy Campaigning Organisation, the Open Rights Group has urged the Conservatives to confirm if they have stopped Racial and Religious profiling
An audit of the UK political parties by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published yesterday unearthed that the Conservative party profiled 10 million UK voters by ethnicity and religion.
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09 November, 2020
UK-Japan trade agreement endangers privacy
UK-Japan Trade Agreement punches USA-sized hole in privacy and endangers trade agreement with the EU
Today, the Open Rights Group have published a briefing outlining the existential threat posed by the UK-Japan Trade Agreement towards our privacy and data protection rights here in the UK.
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05 November, 2020
Privacy organisation Open Rights Group taking the Privacy regulator ICO to court in a landmark case.
In an unprecedented move, the Privacy Campaigners at the Open Rights Group (ORG) have today announced that they are taking the UK’s privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to court over the regulator’s failure to stop unlawful practices by the Digital Advertising Technology (AdTech) industry.
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18 October, 2020
Test and Trace police access is dangerous
Reacting to news that police will be granted access to Test and Trace data, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“It is dangerous to compromise the privacy of health data.
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29 September, 2020
Facebook and UK Privacy Regulator ICO Complicit in subverting democracy
Responding to Channel 4’s latest revelations about the massive cache of voter data used by the Trump campaign, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“This latest revelations lays bare two key problems.
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25 September, 2020
Cummings’ Data Plan Threatens UK Privacy Rights
Responding to reports about Dominic Cummings’ so-called “pro-tech” plan to re-write UK’s data protection laws, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“Any threat to our existing gold-standard data protection laws will have huge consequences for banking, health, entertainment, insurance and tech sectors.
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23 September, 2020
GOVERNMENT IGNORING TEST AND TRACE PRIVACY ISSUES
Privacy organisations have today demanded the Government clarify how people’s private data will be kept safe and secure under the new Test and Trace regulations, which come into full force with the launch of the NHSX App.
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11 September, 2020
Japan trade agreement could mean more “A level” style debacles
Reacting to the conclusion of the Japan-UK Trade Agreement, Matthew Rice, trade lead at Open Rights Group said:
“The Agreement apparently prevents algorithms being routinely checked.
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21 August, 2020
Cross-Party Group of MPs challenge Information Commissioner over Data Protection failure
Cross-Party Group of MPs challenge Information Commissioner over failure to enforce Data Protection in the Test and Trace Programme
In an unprecedented move, a cross-party group of more than 20 MPs have challenged the Information Commissioner over the regulator’s failure to enforce Data Protection standards and hold the Government to account.
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20 July, 2020
Government admits Test and Trace unlawful
The UK Government has been forced to admit they deployed the COVID-19 Test and Trace programme unlawfully without a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), following a legal challenge from privacy campaigning organisation, Open Rights Group (ORG).
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16 July, 2020
ORG’S REACTION TO SCHREMS II JUDGEMENT: BREXIT UK MUST ‘LEVEL UP’ NOT RACE TO BOTTOM
EU PUSHING FOR HIGH STANDARDS, UK MUST FOLLOW
Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“Schrems II means that the UK must choose either high standards with Europe, or a race to the bottom accepting low standards with the USA.
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24 June, 2020
Voters angered by stereotyping by UK parties
A report released yesterday by the Open Rights Group (ORG), shows UK political parties are attempting to profile millions of individuals for their income, religion, and political views.
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18 June, 2020
APP SWITCH IS WIN FOR PRIVACY
Open Rights Group welcomes the Government’s decision to switch to a ‘decentralised’ contact matching App, in the fight against COVID-19.
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05 June, 2020
ICO “stay” on Tribunal lifted
Open Rights Group welcomes the lifting of the ‘ICO stay‘ on the Information Tribunal, which means that complaints against organisations failing to uphold data protection rights can now be pursued.
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05 June, 2020
“Tracking app” wil be released at the end of June
Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group, commenting on the Government’s announcement that the “tracking app” wil be released at the end of June, said:
“The App needs safeguards in law to prevent it being abused before it is released.
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04 June, 2020
ORG demands Government act to secure ‘Track and Trace’ data
NHS Test and Trace has been launched, in breach of data protection laws.
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28 May, 2020
NHSX app must gain the trust of marginalised groups
A group of civil society organisations and privacy advocates have written to the government to demand that protections are put in place so that the NHSX Tracking app can gain the trust of people in marginalised groups.
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05 May, 2020
NHS app lacks privacy “due diligence”
Open Rights Group’s lawyers, AWO, have written to Matt Hancock and NHSX to demand immediate confirmation that they will conduct a full and adequate Data Protection Impact Assessment, consult with the ICO and publish the results.
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28 April, 2020
NHS app may suffer basic usability issues
Reacting to NHSX’s Chief Executive’s announcement to Parliament that their contact-tracing app would be released next month, Open Rights Group’s Executive Director said it was still unclear how the app would be both usable, and avoid using new Google-Apple APIs.
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24 April, 2020
Please explain how NHS app will work, asks Open Rights Group
Reacting to NHSX’s announcement that “in the coming weeks, the NHS will be launching a contact-tracing app”, Open Rights Group’s Executive Director said that transparency over the app was paramount.
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27 March, 2020
NHS Must Explain Role Of Surveillance Company
PALANTIR HAS NEGATIVE REPUTATION—CAUTION AND TRANSPARENCY NEEDED
Reacting to news that surveillance company Palantir is in discussion with the NHS to “clean” and analyse bulk health data, including tracking of spare beds, ventilators and calls to 111.
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11 March, 2020
Campaigners welcome the creation of a Commissioner to oversee use of biometrics by Police in Scotland
Following the news that the Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of creating a Scottish Biometrics Commissioner, Matthew Rice, Scotland Director, Open Rights Groups said:
It has been a long time coming but we applaud the Scottish Parliament have voted to create a Scottish Biometrics Commissioner.
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06 March, 2020
Political parties deny true scale of using personal data for campaigning to Select Committee
The House of Lords Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee have received written evidence from the Liberal Democrats, Labour, and the Conservatives on their digital campaigning practices.
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20 February, 2020
Google move endangers UK privacy
Moving UK users’ data to the USA makes bulk surveillance easier, and data protection harder.
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12 March, 2020
Online Harms Regulation Threatens Free Speech
Appointing state regulator for online speech creates censorship incentives: ‘duty of care’ is vague and an undefined concept
Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“This is a dangerous proposal that could cause vast restrictions on free speech.
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06 February, 2020
ORG response to child’s rights groups letter to Facebook
Open Rights Group, responding to today’s reports of a child’s rights groups letter to Facebook, responded:
Encryption provides a secure internet for all, including children, and while well-meaning, these efforts are misguided.
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28 January, 2020
Government must pledge to uphold data privacy
In a letter to all MPs, ORG explains data protection in the UK is under threat following claims earlier this year by government sources that they wish to diverge from European privacy standards.
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22 January, 2020
Data Regulator pushes ahead with age gates
IMPACT ASSESSMENT MISSING IN ACTION
Over 280 ORG supporters wrote to the ICO about the previous draft code, to express concerns with compulsory age checks for websites, which could lead to restrictions on content.
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17 January, 2020
Age Verification Judicial Review endangers UK citizens’ privacy
Reacting to the Judicial Review launched by Tech companies to force Age Verification for adult content to be implemented (1) Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group said:
“These companies are asking us to trust them with records of millions of people’s sexual preferences, with huge commercial reasons to use that data for profiling and advertising.
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17 January, 2020
Data regulator ICO fails to enforce the law
The complainants are considering taking legal action against the regulator.
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16 January, 2020
Open Rights Group and Privacy International statement on Police Scotland’s announcement to roll-out cyber kiosks
“Open Rights Group and Privacy International called on Police Scotland to prevent rolling out until the Scottish Government reformed the law to provide an overarching framework for the seizure of electronic devices in Scotland in line with human rights standards.
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14 January, 2020
NEWS RELEASE Mobile Adtech “out of control”
A report released today shows that Adtech in mobile apps is sharing user data far and wide, through adtech systems that include sensitive information such as sexuality, drug use, political views.
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10 January, 2020
Public are kept in the dark over data driven political campaigning, poll finds
Open Rights Group commissioned YouGov, a polling company, to conduct two polls to gauge public attitudes towards data driven campaigning practices.
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10 December, 2019
Open Rights Group joins international outcry over UK government calls to access private messages
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2019
Open Rights Group has joined dozens of other organizations signing an open letter to the UK government to express significant concerns raised by their recent statements against encryption.
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09 December, 2019
Campaigners demand answers over parties use of personal data in General Election
Directors, staff, and members of the Open Rights Group have demanded that the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, and Labour cease the processing of their data and to have their profiled data created about them erased.
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04 December, 2019
Campaigners release tool for the public to discover the extent of political party profiling during general election.
Open Rights Group (ORG) have released a tool to help UK voters turn the tables on political parties, by seeing what personal data they hold on them.
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22 November, 2019
Poll finds strong support for policies combating nefarious online campaigning activity
A poll commissioned by civil society organisation Open Rights Group has found strong public support for policies designed to curb the worst excesses of online campaigning.
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31 October, 2019
Twitter ban on political ads welcome move but ultimately symbolic one
Matthew Rice, Scotland Director, Open Rights Group, reacting to the Twitter ban on political ads said:
This decision by Twitter is a welcome move but ultimately a symbolic one.
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16 October, 2019
Government drops Age Verification plans
Reacting to news that plans for Age Verification for adult content have been halted, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“Age verification for porn as currently legislated would cause huge privacy problems if it went ahead.
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04 October, 2019
Civil Society organisations raise concerns over rules designed to prevent a new Cambridge Analytica
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently issued a draft framework code of practice for the use of personal data in political campaigning.
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03 October, 2019
Open Rights Group and the3million seek to appeal immigration exemption judgment
The organisations argued at the High Court hearing, that took place on 23 and 24 July 2019, that the exemption is far too broad and is contrary to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
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29 August, 2019
Loophole in Facebook’s new ID rules on political ads leaves door wide open for astroturf groups
Facebook announced in a blog post that, from mid September, organisations and individuals in the US buying political ad space on its platform would have to provide more information than previously required.
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19 August, 2019
Cost and security issues fuel concern for 2020 GLA elections
The Greater London Authority (GLA) Elections use e-counting machines to tally votes.
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24 July, 2019
Controversial ‘immigration exemption’ used in 60% of cases, court case reveals
The figure was confirmed on the first day of a High Court challenge brought by the Open Rights Group and the3million.
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22 July, 2019
High Court to hear judicial review of the immigration exemption for data protection rights
The legal challenge has been brought by the Open Rights Group and the3million who argue that the immigration exemption, which passed into law in May 2018 as part of the Data Protection Act 2018, is unlawful.
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15 July, 2019
DCMS urged to make porn privacy scheme compulsory
The letter notes that the BBFC privacy standard contains broadly-worded provisions that allow age verification providers to write their own rules and that there are no penalties for providers who sign up to the scheme and fail to meet its requirements.
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03 July, 2019
‘Futurebook’ parody site shows a dystopian digital future
Launched today, Open Rights Group’s futurebook.
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01 July, 2019
Online Harms White Paper – ‘Duty of care not the right approach’ experts agree
This call, made jointly by the Oxford Internet Institute (part of the University of Oxford), Open Rights Group, The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), Global Partners Digital and Index on Censorship, responds to the government’s Online Harms White Paper.
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20 June, 2019
Complainants call on ICO to take action against adtech sector
The ICO has agreed in substance with the complainants’ points about the insecurity of adtech data sharing.
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20 June, 2019
NEWS RELEASE Age Verification delay is an opportunity to fix privacy in porn block
Executive Director Jim Killock said:
“While it’s very embarrassing to delay age verification for the third time, this is an opportunity for the Government to address the many problems that this ill-thought through policy poses.
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14 June, 2019
ORG report: BBFC age verification standard is pointless, misleading and potentially dangerous
From July 15, people in the UK are expected to prove they are 18 if they want to watch porn online.
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03 June, 2019
Amazon enforcement action forces ink cartridge sellers to close
Epson has long used online platform content removal procedures as a form of privatised patent enforcement.
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07 May, 2019
Regulating Online Political Advertising Needs Data Use Transparency
Pascal Crowe, Data and Democracy Project Officer at Open Rights Group responded saying:
“Effectively regulating online political advertising needs to go beyond campaign spending and require greater transparency over parties’ use of personal data.
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17 April, 2019
‘Dangerous and irresponsible’ age verification goes ahead
Reacting to the government’s announcement on age verification for adult content, Jim Killock Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“The government needs to compel companies to enforce privacy standards.
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15 April, 2019
ICO Age Appropriate Design Code of Conduct: tread lightly
Reacting to the ICO Code of Conduct Matthew Rice, Open Rights Group said:
“It is welcome to see the ICO lay out strong “high privacy” by default including switching off geolocation, services the rely on profiling, and restricting nudge techniques, among others.
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08 April, 2019
DCMS publishes White Paper on Internet Safety and Online Harm
The White Paper focuses heavily on the duties of social media platforms to police user-generated content.
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27 March, 2019
European Parliament approves controversial Copyright Directive
Reacting to the vote in the European Parliament, Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group said:
“This is a very bad day for free expression, for copyright and democracy.
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27 February, 2019
BBFC fails to explain its porn privacy scheme at meeting 300m from its office
Pornographic websites will soon have to verify the age of their website visitors, under the Digital Economy Act 2017.
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06 February, 2019
KARMA POLICE: UK mass surveillance challenge will go to Europe’s highest human rights court
6 February 2019
In September 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK’s mass interception programmes breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
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13 September, 2018
UK mass surveillance ruled unlawful in landmark judgment
The Court found that the UK’s mass surveillance programmes, revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, did ‘not meet the “quality of law” requirement’ and were ‘incapable of keeping the “interference” to what is “necessary in a democratic society”’.
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12 September, 2018
MEPs advance Article 13 of EU Copyright Directive
Open Rights Group has been campaigning against Article 13 over concerns that free speech will be impacted through the large scale removal of material without adequate review.
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30 August, 2018
Open Rights Group and the3million launch judicial review challenging the Data Protection Act’s immigration exemption
The challenge has been brought by Open Rights Group (ORG) – a UK based digital campaigning organisation working to protect the rights to privacy and free speech online and the3million – the largest grassroots organisation of EU citizens living in the UK.
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29 June, 2018
Online tool helps public find out how data is being used by Fintech companies
Data Rights Finder will make it easier for people to request, change and delete the data that companies hold about them.
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13 June, 2018
Open Rights Group victory in Supreme Court web blocking challenge
Open Rights Group acted as an intervener in this case.
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04 June, 2018
Nearly 40% of court order blocks are in error, ORG finds
A new tool added to its blocked.
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09 May, 2018
Rights groups to take Government to court over shocking immigration exemption
This exemption will affect everyone involved in an immigration case, for example: those seeking refuge in the UK, those affected by the Windrush scandal, the three million EU citizens who will have to submit their applications for a new immigration status after Brexit.
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12 March, 2018
Age Verification pushed back
The deadline for the implementation of the Government’s potentially disastrous Age Verification scheme has officially been pushed back to ‘before the end of the year’.
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05 March, 2018
Government Warned Legal Action Coming if Immigration Exemption Enacted
Formal legal action has been launched against the UK Government today over the inclusion of a specific clause in the new Data Protection Bill which means at least three million people across the country would be unable to find out what personal data the Home Office or other related organisations hold on them under a clause the government claims is needed for ‘effective immigration control’.
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30 January, 2018
Open Rights Group respond to court ruling that government surveillance regime unlawful
“Once again, another UK court has found another piece of Government surveillance legislation to be unlawful.
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20 December, 2017
ORG responds to annual report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner (IOCCO)
Responding to today’s publication of the 2016 annual report of the outgoing Interception of Communications Commissioner (IOCCO), the Open Rights Group highlighted a number of issues.
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14 December, 2017
Open Rights Group respond to news BBFC proposed as Age Verification regulator
Responding to the news that the BBFC are in line to be appointed Age Verification regulator, Jim Killock Executive Director of the Open Rights Group said:
“The BBFC will struggle to ensure that Age Verification is safe, secure and anonymous.
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12 December, 2017
Theresa May told to make Mark Zuckerberg a national censor
Reacting to Theresa May’s proposal to make social media companies liable for content, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“This is an attempt to make Mark Zuckerberg a national censor.
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07 December, 2017
Open Rights Group and the3million tell Government immigration exemption must be removed
The Government’s proposals found in the Data Protection Bill would remove the right of individuals subject to an immigration procedure to discover what personal data companies and public authorities hold on them.
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04 December, 2017
Nadine Dorries admits to unlawful data privacy in her offices
Reacting to Nadine Dorries’ admission on Twitter that she routinely gives access to her personal Parliamentary accounts to interns, Jim Killock said:
“On the face of it, Nadine Dorries is admitting to breaching basic data protection laws, making sure her constituents’ emails and correspondence is kept confidential and secure.
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30 November, 2017
ORG Responds to Government’s proposed changes to the Investigatory Powers Act
Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said:
“The government has evaded the main point of the Watson judgment: they cannot keep data on a blanket basis.
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22 November, 2017
Give us the right to defend the elderly and children’s privacy, say campaigners
Campaigners asked for the right for organisations to seek redress directly, when personal data is abused, without having to seek out individual complainants.
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16 November, 2017
ORG responds to Prince William’s comments about danger of anonymity online
Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group said:
“Anonymity online can be very important, for instance for whistleblowers, journalists and people seeking to read banned information where facts and opinions are censored.
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07 November, 2017
UK NGOs CHALLENGE UK GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE AT THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Big Brother Watch and Others v UK will be heard alongside 10 Human Rights Organisations and Others v UK and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Alice Ross v UK, four years after the initial application to the ECtHR.
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