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 ...

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and flawed eVisa scheme a ‘success’ and says that it ...

The UK Government is trying to use algorithms to predict which people are most likely to become killers using sensetive personal data of hundreds of thousands of people. The secretive project, ...

Social media giant Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis – enabling both criminals and the UK Home Office to target vulnerable migrants with adverts. Research by ORG found that fraudulent ...

As organisations committed to defending privacy and freedom of expression rights, we are writing in response to reports that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (‘IPT’) will be hearing Apple’s appeal ...

Joint letter from Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship to the President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The letter states that the “case implicates the privacy rights of ...

Unfortunately, the Data (Use and Access) Bill still includes several provisions that would lower important protections for our data protection rights, and threaten public trust toward the use and ...

Open Rights Group has responded to a Washington Post article that claims the UK has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud. “In doing ...

In this report we analyse the technical architecture, and associated privacy policies, of the canvassing apps used by the Liberal Democrat, Conservative, and Labour parties during the 2024 general ...

Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI ...

From 1 January 2025, people who have right to remain in the UK must have an e-Visas to apply for work, apply to use housing and other services, and to re-enter the UK. Other documents such as ...

The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Open Rights Group welcomes this as a positive development and a step ...