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 ...

Since its first advertising product launched in 2004, Meta has relied on revenue from advertising to support its business. In 2024, 98% of Meta’s $165bn of revenue came from advertising. From that ...

The Online Safety Act 2023 is a complex piece of legislation that places extensive duties on Internet service providers regarding content moderation, transparency reporting, and age verification. It ...

Open Rights Group believes that Ofcom should root its regulation, and the UK Parliament should base its law, in human rights law, taking advantage of prior work on content moderation such as: the 2013 ...

A new report by digital campaigners, the Open Rights Group, outlines how the Online Safety Act favours big tech, and harms small websites and the general public. How to fix the Online Safety Act: A ...

Ray Corrigan is a Senior Lecturer in Computing & Communications at the Open University. He has worked with the UK parliament, European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organisation and ...

Peter Sommer combines academic and public policy work with commercial cyber security consultancy, with a strong bias towards legal issues. His first degree is in law, from Oxford University. He has ...

Bill, also known as the UK data protection reform, came back to the House of Lords for what was supposed to be its final ...

Thousands of Prevent referrals are made each year ostensibly to “support people susceptible to radicalisation”. The overwhelmingly majority do not meet the threshold for a Channel intervention (a ...

Civil liberties groups have warned that the Online Safety Bill will fundamentally undermine human rights in the UK. In a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, the organisations ...

Our report finds that the ICO repeatedly failed to take action over clear breaches of data protection law by the government. The ICO’s decision to act as a “critical friend” meant that it was left to ...