Dear Ofcom, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance, Implementation of Palestine Action proscription on social media We are writing with serious concerns about how Ofcom and social media platforms will ...

From Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social ...

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 ...

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.

When the “immigration exemption” became law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, it threatened the data rights of all UK residents, including British citizens.

It may sound like something from a sci-fi film or dystopian novel, but the “Homicide Prediction Project” is just the tip of the iceberg. Police forces across the UK are increasingly using so-called ...

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 ...

Digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group (ORG) have responded to the publication of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

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 hearing Apple’s appeal ...

The new Data (Use and Access) Bill drops several concerning aspects of the previous Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

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 ...