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

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.

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 ...

This briefing outlines concerns people have with the way the Act is working in practice and why they are upset with how age assurance has been introduced, both unsafely and applied to a wide range of ...

New report finds that the Home Office’s digital-only immigration status system is leaving migrants in the UK stressed, confused and fearful. Digital status does not affect all migrants equally: those ...

The debate over digital ID systems has recently intensified in the UK, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer framing digital IDs as a mechanism to curb ‘illegal working’. What these debates often overlook ...

The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. Open Rights Group welcomes this as a positive development and a step ...

Tell the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology that Age Assurance done under the Online Safety Act must be safe, private and trusted. Open Rights Group has warned of serious privacy and ...

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 ...

When the UK last proposed age verification for adult content online, we analysed the deficiencies with the proposed code of practice for AV, which, as with the current Ofcom codes, left providers to ...

Open Rights Group has responded to Ofcom’s announcement that porn sites will be expected to verify the age of their users by July 2025. “Protecting children online is vital but we need to ensure that ...

From the government press release, and without seeing the text of the Bill, there are already things we can say about the Online Safety Bill. It is a festival of inane, poorly thought out and ...