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WEBOpen Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online. We fight for a fair digital environment where technology supports justice, equality and freedom. We campaign, lobby, go to court – whatever it takes to challenge restrictions to ...
Research - Open Rights Group
WEBSep 17, 2024 · The Online Safety Bill – Sector Support Roundtable. In September 2022, Open Rights Group convened a discussion between privacy and data protection experts and other civil society professionals exploring the nexus between privacy, protection from online abuse and freedom of expression. Find Out More. 27 October, 2022.
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WEBFounded 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 ...
Defend Online Speech - Open Rights Group
WEBGovernment’s Kafkaesque plans for regulating online speech is condemned. Responding to the Online Safety Bill, Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said: “Treating online speech as inherently dangerous and demanding that risks are eliminated under the threat of massive fines is only going to end up in over-reaction and ...
ORG and the 3million win in court again | Open Rights Group
WEBDec 11, 2023 · The case is part of litigation which has been brought by the3million, the organisation representing EU citizens in the UK, and Open Rights Group, the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) intervened in the case. Since March 2018, six judges found the Immigration ...
Online Safety Bill Policy Hub | Open Rights Group
WEBSOAS ICOP Policy Briefings – Online Safety Bill “spy clause” requires chat platforms to scan private messages, by the Open Rights Group, 5 December 2022. Policy briefing – Online Safety Bill third reading. Policy briefing – Criminal liability for content harmful to children. Policy Briefing: Who is checking on your chats in private ...
Blog | Open Rights Group
WEBJul 17, 2024 · On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group (ORG) held a roundtable with civil society – from women’s rights advocacy groups to organisations representing over-surveilled communities – to discuss some of the most concerning aspects of the Online Safety Bill, currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. Find Out More.
Campaigns - Open Rights Group
WEBORG 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. Find out more.
News - Open Rights Group
WEBJul 15, 2024 · Powers to imprison social media executives mirrors those exercised by Vladimir Putin in Russia Ministerial powers to censor legal content still in place Shifting bill promises more policy failures and disappointment Responding to the news of the Government’s republication of the draft Online Safety Bill, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, Jim Killock, said: “The fact that the ...
Victories - Open Rights Group
WEBConcerned about the risk of fraud in electronic voting, one of our early campaigns was deploying volunteer teams of technical experts in 2007 and 2008 to produce analyses of the e-voting systems used in both trial and live elections. Since its inception in 2005, Open Rights Group has earned a reputation for a long list of victories in defence ...