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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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12 Jan 2023 By Sophia Akram
Views Around the Table on the Online Safety Bill
On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group (ORG) held a roundtable with civil society – from women’s rights advocacy groups to organisations representing over-surveilled communities – to discuss some of the most concerning aspects of the Online Safety Bill, currently at the report stage in the House of Commons.
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Mass Surveillance
11 Jan 2023 By Dr Monica Horten
Online Safety Bill latest change: State enforcement of big tech terms
The Online Safety Bill is currently going back to Report Stage in the Commons on 16th January, and is widely expected to be in the Lords for the end of the month, or beginning of February.
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04 Jan 2023 By Sophia Akram
Data Sharing and Migrant Women Reporting Abuse
On 9 December 2022, The Wales Cross Party Group on Digital Rights and Democracy, of which Open Rights Group is the secretariat, held its second session, this time held on data sharing and migrant women reporting domestic abuse.
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28 Dec 2022 By James Baker
The ORG Review of 2022
2022 has been a tumultuous year for Digital Rights in the UK.
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