Digital rights in 2025 From age verification and digital ID to crime-predicting tech and attacks on migrants’ digital rights, ...

Justice Secretary, David Lammy, has announced plans to drastically reduce the use of jury trials in England and Wales.

Over 550,000 people have petitioned Parliament to repeal the Online Safety Act (OSA), making it one of the largest public expressions of concern about a UK digital law in recent history. A petition to ...

Open Rights Group has written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall MP calling for regulation of age assurance providers operating under the Online Safety Act.

Let’s look at how the Online Safety Bill brings the contents of your private communications into scope for scanning, monitoring, and censorship. The Online Safety Bill will apply to the contents of ...

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 ...

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 ...

ORG sent an urgent open letter to Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. The letter, signed by 26 civil society groups representing a ...

The Data Use and Access Bill will fail to protect the public from harmful uses of artificial intelligence, say digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group. The Bill, published today, rehashes many ...

The Snowden revelations and subsequent litigation – some of which is ongoing – have repeatedly identified unlawful state surveillance by UK agencies that took place absent the knowledge of ...

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 ...