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The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the ...
Digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has condemned the last minute addition of extreme powers to the Crime and Policing Bill. The new additions would give the police the powers to extract data ...
In this report, we analyse the Online Safety Act (OSA or ‘the Act’) 2023, which imposes new duties on online service providers to protect children from harmful content, and Ofcom’s guidance to ...
This document is intended as a full overview of the Online Safety Act (OSA, or the Act) and how it works for organisations attempting to understand it and its implications. We explain the OSA’s key ...
eVisas: Hostile and Broken Last September, ORG published a report into the failings of the eVisa scheme. Since then, we have been approached by many people who have experienced problems when trying to ...
The case studies in this report examine how bad actors use Meta’s advertising systems to spread bad ads across five areas: Democracy Voter suppression, the targeting of minorities, electoral ...
Bad Ads: Targeted Disinformation, Division and Fraud on Meta’s Platforms Social media giant Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis – enabling both criminals and the UK Home Office to target ...
ORG’s Platform Power Programme Manager James Baker said: “ORG welcomes legislation to protect and improve the UK’s cyber security. But a key component of any cyber security strategy has to be the ...
As organisations and individuals concerned with health functioning of democracy, we welcomed the commitment in the Kings Speech to “strengthen the integrity of elections”. We are therefore writing to ...
Dear Lord Justice Singh, 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 ...
James Baker, Platform Power Programme Manager at Open Rights Group said: “In doing this the government are attempting to undermine the security of millions of users which would expose them to higher ...
Recommendation Obligation and transparency rights should not be compromised. As we move toward the adoption of Artificial Intelligence by the public and the private sector, retaining robust ...