Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.

Indiscriminate collection of emails is illegal, court rules in response to challenge originally brought by David Davis

Thursday evening, the UK Government published their long-awaited proposal for a new UK data protection regime.

Responding to racist comments that were directed towards several England players following the team’s loss on penalties against Italy in the EURO 2020 final, Heather Burns, Policy Manager at the Open...

It is disappointing that in the aftermath of this attack, the Government’s response appears to focus on the regulation of the Internet and encryption.

Open Rights Group has warned that Online Safety Bill, which has been passed in parliament, will make us less secure by threatening our privacy and undermining our freedom of expression.

It's time to end the online advertising industy's widespread and systemic abuse of our privacy. Everyday, online advertisers make a mockery of our hard won digital rights when they seize the intimate

New evidence to regulators: IAB documents reveal that it knew that real-time bidding would be “incompatible with consent under GDPR”.

In recent days, a petition has circulated online which calls for a legal requirement to provide a verified form of ID in order to open a social media account.

MPs have written to the government over concerns they are looking to make a political appointment.

A High Court judge has agreed with Open Rights Group and the3million that the immigration exemption in the UK Data Protection Act 2018 is incompatible with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Friday 02 October 4pm BST Six months after the lockdown, a variety of Covid-19 proximity tracker apps have been deployed across Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England/Wales.

Your privacy must not become a bargaining chip.British privacy laws ensure that you control your personal data and are protected from privacy violations. But...

The reforms, which stop short of abolishing GDPR entirely, also include an overhaul to the Information Commissioner's Office and a watering-down of rules around consent for scientific research

In a rarely seen move, more than 30 civil society organisations have gone public with their concerns over what they believe may be an unlawful consultation process.

The Government have just announced their plans to gut the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

WhatsApp and messaging apps unite to urge the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill.

The government has delayed further debate on the Online Safety Bill until the Autumn.

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Encryption could make it harder to police online grooming, England's children's commissioner warns.

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Contact tracers working on Sitel’s test and trace operation were told to use their personal email addresses to share information about cases with their managers.

It's time to end the online advertising industy's widespread and systemic abuse of our privacy. Everyday, online advertisers make a mockery of our hard won digital rights when they seize the intimate

Today the court of appeal has unanimously found that the UK immigration exemption is incompatible with Article 23 of the GDPR.

Why is there a dispute between the two tech giants and does it affect you?

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online.

You might be aware of plans to give Police more powers through the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill 2021.

Government’s Data Bill is dubbed as the ‘Data Oligarchs Charter’ by the privacy campaigning organisation, the Open Rights Group.

In an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the groups warn that the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised by the Summit” while a select few corporations seek to...

Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation.

The government will force companies operating in the UK to declare "products and services in advance of their launch" to ensure police can still intercept data.

The Immigration Exemption to data protection is STILL unlawful as Courts tell Home Office again that they cannot sidestep Parliament when using personal data to profile migrants.

The Information Commissioner’s Office has opened an investigation into a fake website created by the Home Office.

Controversial rules will bring about censorship of the web on a massive scale, critics warn

After Sir David Amess' death, we look at the detail of the Online Safety Bill and what measures it offers.

Boss of messaging app says users’ trust at risk from powers in online safety bill to impose monitoring

26 civil society organisations have written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, calling for the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill...

Today, Wired has reported that the Home Office is actively exploring legal and technical mechanisms to compel Facebook and WhatsApp to break end-to-end encrypted messaging.

ORGCon is hosted by Open Rights Group (ORG). We challenge the government’s mass surveillance programme, protect free expression online and defend digital pri...

Safeguard private communication Over 80 civil society organisations, academics and cyber experts from 23 countries have written to the UK government to raise the alarm about proposed powers in the...

Last month, a key European vote brought the EU much closer to a system of universal mass censorship and surveillance, in the name of defending copyright.Members of the EU Parliament voted to advance

This week, Europe’s highest Human Rights Court ruled that the UK Government’s mass surveillance programme violated our fundamental rights.