What We Do

Resist Pre-Crime

Data and content is being weaponised to criminalise people without cause.
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Resist Pre-Crime

We campaign on surveillance, privacy and censorship in the digital age.

Don’t Scan Me!

The Online Safety Bill’s spy clause will outsource surveillance to messaging apps.
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Don’t Scan Me!

Migrant Digital Justice

The Migrant Digital Justice programme empowers the migrants’ rights sector to challenge technologies used in immigration controls.
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Migrant Digital Justice

Stop Data Discrimination

The government wants to make it easier for companies and authorities to use your data against you.
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Stop Data Discrimination

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Defend Democratic Expression

What’s legal to say should be legal to type.
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Defend Democratic Expression

Is your website being blocked?

Our Blocked project aims to improve transparency about web blocking filters used by mobile phone companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

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Councils against data discrimination

Council’s should use technology to support justice, rights and freedoms.
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Councils against data discrimination

Data and Democracy

Open Rights Group’s Data and Democracy project seeks to prevent digital technologies from eroding public trust in the democratic process.
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Data and Democracy

Events

Our victories

“Immigration exemption” ruled unlawful under GDPR

When the “immigration exemption” became law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, it threatened the data rights of all UK residents, including British citizens.
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NHSX scraps centralised model for Covid-19 app

In a huge win for digital privacy, in June 2020 the UK Government scrapped plans to use a centralised model for its Covid-19 tracker app, opting for the decentralised model long advocated by Open Rights Group (ORG).
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