The UK government has launched a public consultation into imposing a blanket ban on social media for under-16s.

Open Rights Group (ORG) has welcoming local groups in towns and cities across the UK that meet regularly to campaign on the digital rights issues affecting their communities. The lead organisers of ...

The automation of the hostile environment continues with the Home Office rolling out the use of AI in the asylum ...

Let’s look at how the Online Safety Bill brings the contents of your private communications into scope for scanning, monitoring, and censorship. The Online Safety Bill will apply to the contents of ...

This introduces a backdoor that would make people vulnerable to hacking and abuses of their private information without any control over who gets access.

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 ...

The draft Online Safety Bill’s provisions on mandatory age verification don’t just threaten your rights to privacy and freedom of expression – they also threaten the integrity of the Internet’s ...

United Nations Surveillance and human rights : report of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression ...

The Home Office planned to replace these physical documents with eVisas by the end of December 2024. These plans failed and now millions of people are having to use expired documents to prove their ...

UK internet users now have to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites. Age verification is not only being introduced for porn sites but also social media platforms, dating apps and even ...

Since joining Open Rights Group in January 2009, Jim has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive ...