European civil society organisations have written to European Commissioner, Michael McGrath over concerns about the erosion of privacy and data protection in the UK. The organisations argue that the ...

A new report by digital campaigners, Open Rights Group urges Meta to amend its business model to comply with data protection law. The report outlines alternative business models that will not force ...

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and flawed eVisa scheme a ‘success’ and says that it ...

Social media giant Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis – enabling both criminals and the UK Home Office to target vulnerable migrants with adverts. Research by ORG found that fraudulent ...

To Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology To Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and ...

Digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group (ORG) have responded to the publication of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. ORG’s Platform Power Programme Manager James Baker said: “ORG welcomes ...

As organisations committed to defending privacy and freedom of expression rights, we are writing in response to reports that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (‘IPT’) will be hearing Apple’s appeal ...

Unfortunately, the Data (Use and Access) Bill still includes several provisions that would lower important protections for our data protection rights, and threaten public trust toward the use and ...

Open Rights Group has responded to a Washington Post article that claims the UK has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud. “In doing ...

The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Open Rights Group welcomes this as a positive development and a step ...

The Data Use and Access Bill will fail to protect the public from harmful uses of artificial intelligence, say digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group. The Bill, published today, rehashes many ...

Open Rights Group is calling on the ICO to take action against social media companies that process users’ data without consent. The digital rights group’s call comes as it was revealed that LinkedIn ...