The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the ...

Data profiling, or behavioural profiling, is one of the most powerful tools in digital advertising, and generates billions of dollars of revenue for the sites that host ads. This report lays out clear ...

Executive Summary This paper addresses the privacy implications of two new Domain Name System (DNS) encryption protocols: DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).

Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, politicians have spent 4 years criticising the use of personal data for political campaigning, particularly on social media.

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 ...

Age Verification is dead – for now Open Rights Group welcomes this change for two reasons. Firstly, the privacy protections within the scheme were merely optional for AV providers, leaving users at ...

Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.

Open Rights Group has signed onto a joint civil society statement expressing concerns over proposals by the UK government which would undermine encryption, including through its Online Harms Bill.

Among other things, we are concerned that the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill: weakens safeguards when intelligence services collect bulk datasets of personal information, potentially allowing ...

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 ...

Executive Summary The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Online Safety Bill: US and UK campaigners warn of dangers of age verification New briefing by Open Rights Group and EFF highlights the dangers posed by age verification proposals in the Online Safety ...