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REPORTS ALL PUBLICATIONS. In this briefing, we explain how the proposed changes to the UK data protection framework that would be introduced by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would weaken legal safeguards around the use of personal data for political purposes, in particular by: WHY DATA PROTECTION MATTERS The use of personal data and data analytics for electoral campaigning ...
Who We Are - Open Rights Group
Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital rights organisation that campaigns to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world ...
The Twitter Xodus: Time to stay or time to go | Open Rights Group
7 hours ago · “We’re here, because we’re here.” Until recently, leaving a social media platform seemed likely to be an act of self harm, a way to lose friends and influence. Yet people are now leaving Twitter/X, in greater numbers, to join a range of different platforms. It’s a …
Digital Rights Manifesto - Open Rights Group
Jun 11, 2024 · After a sustained period of attacks on our rights to privacy and freedom of expression, we called on all candidates and political parties in the 2024 General Election to protect digital rights.
Defend Online Speech - Open Rights Group
What’s legal to say should be legal to type. SUBMISSION TO PARLIAMENT Addressing automated, arbitrary, algorithmic censorship in the Online Safety BillJune 2022 Contents About Open Rights Group 2 Addressing automated, arbitrary algorithmic censorship 2 Our concerns and recommendations 2 Summary 3 Automated censorship and arbitrary restrictions 4 Content moderation systems 5 Arbitrary ...
Online Safety Bill Policy Hub | Open Rights Group
Global encryption coalition warns of Online Safety Bill dangers 70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an …
Internet censorship and child protection | Open Rights Group
Jun 29, 2012 · See for example See Tim Davies, Sangeet Bhullar, and Terri Dowty, “Rethinking responses to children and young people’s online lives”, September 2011, and “Firewalling child rights in the name of “protection“”, Jenny Thomas, Senior Child Rights Officer at Child Rights International Network (CRIN), June 15th 2012
Blog | Open Rights Group
Jul 26, 2024 · 70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighting their concerns with the threat that the ...
Campaigns - Open Rights Group
ORG VICTORIES. From the Immigration Exception to the Covid-19 app, we’ve achieved a long list of victories in defence of our civil liberties in the digital age