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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On May 12, the Data (Use and Access) Bill, also known as the UK data protection reform, came back to the House of Lords for what was supposed to be its final stage. However, this story is not about ...

Open 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 ...