Open Rights Group protects the digital rights of people in the UK including privacy and free speech online. We are powered by more than 20,000 members and supporters like you.
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Save Encryption to Keep Us Safe
The Online Safety Bill requires ALL online speech to be monitored for “harmful content”, including your private conversations with friends and family.
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No state censorship of online speech
What’s legal to say should be legal to type – a government regulator shouldn’t control your speech, online or off – yet the new Online Safety Bill could lead to just that, or worse.
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20 Sep 2022 By Al
Board Nominations Open
Open Rights Group is electing three Board members in 2022, to help lead our governance and oversight at a time of major change.
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05 Sep 2022 By Dr Monica Horten and Mariano delli Santi
Can our new Prime Minister be trusted with free speech and privacy?
As Liz Truss flies to Balmoral tomorrow to meet the Queen, who will ask her to form a government, what can we expect for our free speech and privacy rights?
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01 Sep 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
Could public debate on immigration be suppressed by the Online Safety Bill?
A little bombshell, hidden deep within the gargantuan piece of legislation that is the Online Safety Bill, could have the effect of suppressing public debate around immigration.
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Mass Surveillance
04 Aug 2022 By Dr Monica Horten
How the Online Safety Bill puts a spy in your pocket
The deployment of client-side scanning on private messaging systems was trailed in a recent research paper published by the technical directors of GCHQ and the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC).
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