What We Do
Keep in touch with the Open Rights Group and our campaigns on surveillance, privacy, censorship and free speech.
Active campaigns
Ending illegal online advertising
When you see an advertisement online, chances are that Real-Time Bidding advertising systems (RTB AdTech) have just auctioned your personal data to hundreds of companies vying for your attention.
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New trade deals threaten the UK’s internet
As the UK negotiates new trade deals, our government is under enormous pressure to water down privacy protections.
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Demand privacy protections for Test & Trace
The Government’s Test and Trace Programme risks the privacy rights of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of individuals in the UK whose personal data has been or will be processed through the Programme.
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Who do they think you are?
Political parties are profiling voters across the UK, using personal data purchased from the same people who give you a credit score to try and guess information about your religious and political beliefs, family life and social status.
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Stop state censorship of online speech
The UK has never welcomed a state regulator of offline speech – the standard should be no different for online speech.
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Make data protection law work for everyone
Currently only citizens – who rarely have the expertise, ability or time – are able to initiate complaints when data law is broken.
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Check if your website is being blocked by filters
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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The “immigration exemption” undermines everyone’s data rights
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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Projects
Data and Democracy
The UK’s electoral systems are undergoing a stress test of a sort that they have rarely experienced.
Find Out MoreImmigration, data and technology
ORG’s work on immigration aims to empower the sector to work and campaign against the increasing collection of personal data, data sharing and new technologies driving immigration controls.
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Our victories
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).
Find Out MoreGovernment drops risky age verification plan
Open Rights Group (ORG) has been warning about major privacy risks in plans for age checks on adult websites since they were proposed in the Digital Economy Act 2017.
Find Out MoreDigital censorship averted as UK shelves Copyright Directive
Nearly a year after passage of the EU Copyright Directive, which opened the door to automated upload filters that damage free speech, the UK Government decided not to implement it.
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