Open Rights Group

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We fight for digital rights (UK). Join us.

#privacy #freespeech #surveillance #censorship #dataprotection

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Last Notes

2024-07-08 13:15:08

We were pleased to see the Government reject Tony Blair's calls for ID cards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87rgj4e0rzo.amp #IDcards #DigitalRights #Privacy

2024-07-03 09:09:42

"Despite the known discriminatory outcomes of [#facialrecognition] technology, the [UK] Home Office now wants to give power to individual police officers to scan our faces against a national database.
This dystopian march into a surveillance state is happening without public or parliamentary scrutiny.
We urgently need legislation to safeguard our #privacy and restrict the use of this intrusive technology.”
🗣️ Sara Chitseko, ORG Programme Manager
#ukpolitics #precrime
https://www.thestack.technology/uk-national-facial-matching-service/

2024-06-29 10:24:01

Missed our political hustings this week?
No fear, it's on our Youtube channel to catch up at your leisure.
Hear from our panel about how Digital Rights will be affected in the Age of AI over the next UK Parliament.
#DigitalRights #GeneralElection2024 #AI #ukpolitics #GE2024 #privacy #dataprotection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFkZQaxt5A

2024-06-28 14:15:01

Privacy and data protection are vital for anyone who needs to provide accurate information to prove their right to be in the UK. Yet migrants aren't being treated equally.
When individuals migrate, data migrates with them. Data is exposing of identity, putting people who are fleeing threats at considerable risk.
Migrants and refugees need physical safety but also protection over their digital identity and information.
#DigitalSanctuary #migrants #refugees #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-migrants-need-digital-sanctuary/

2024-06-28 09:08:04

Our open letter to #GE2024 candidates from 37 civil society groups calls for the use of humanising and respectful language about migrants and refugees.
Words shape our collective future. It must be one where everyone is valued and afforded dignity.
Read the open letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/open-letter-candidates-use-respectful-language-about-migrants/
#GeneralElection2024 #GeneralElection #migrants #refugees #ukpolitics
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2024-06-27 13:17:33

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Our open letter is clear: words carry weight.
We call on all candidates to stop using migrants as scapegoats for the challenges the UK faces.
They must refrain from propagating hateful and inflammatory rhetoric against some of the most vulnerable people in the UK.
#GE2024 #ukpolitics #migrants #refugees
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2024-06-27 13:14:05

Words shape how migrants and refugees are treated.
ORG and 36 other civil society groups have signed an open letter to all #GeneralElection2024 (UK) candidates.
We call on them to not use hateful language when talking about migrants and refugees.
Read now ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/open-letter-candidates-use-respectful-language-about-migrants/
#ukpolitics #migrants #refugees
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2024-06-25 15:51:01

TONIGHT: Digital Rights in the Age of AI.
Catch the hustings chaired by Timandra Harkness with Jonathan Camrose (Conservatives), Lord Clement-Jones (Lib Dems) and Jack Lenox (Green Party) on how the the next government can protect our digital rights.
📺 Watch live 8–9.30pm BST on Youtube ⬇️
#digitalrights #AI #generalelection #ukpolitics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFkZQaxt5A

2024-06-24 13:09:49

🚀 We're Hiring 🚀
⚫ Consultant (Technical Investigator) to help us with our investigations of apps used in the General Election.
⚫ Consultant (Data Protection) covering data protection enforcement and data use by political parties.
Get in touch ⬇️
#jobs #digitalrights #dataprotection
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/jobs/

2024-06-24 11:16:51

AI could transform our use of technology over the next UK Parliament.
Join us for our political hustings to hear how our digital rights might be affected and what can be done to protect them in the Age of AI.
TOMORROW, 8–9.30pm BST online.
Sign up now ➡️ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WJkFEPjkT0icQiQRpkjDEg#/registration
#privacy #digitalrights #generalelection #ukpolitics
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2024-06-20 13:46:28

“What we’re talking about is a kind of self-negating paradox. You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop.”
@npub1vt7…5vdp telling it as it is when it comes to attempts to crush encryption with client-side scanning on private messaging apps.
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #surveillance #chatcontrol
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws

2024-06-20 12:10:45

How will the next UK government protect #DigitalRights in the age of #AI?
Find out at our hustings, chaired by Timandra Harkness with Jonathan Camrose (Conservatives), Lord Clement-Jones (Lib Dems) and Jack Lenox (Greens).
Labour speaker TBC 👀
🗓️ 25 June
🕗 8–9.30pm BST
📍 Zoom
Sign up ➡️ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WJkFEPjkT0icQiQRpkjDEg#/registration
From @npub1p2p…hjzg, Big Brother Watch, @npub1u2g…amua, Defend Digital Me, Open Data Institute, Worker Info Exchange and Institute for the Future of Work.
#ukpolitics #election
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2024-06-19 12:11:06

We’re joining dozens of other organisations to demand justice for people who move.
We all need rights, safety, dignity, justice, privacy and community – that includes people who move to the UK and make it their home
Read the six steps towards migrant justice.
#RefugeeWeek
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2024-06-19 09:00:51

Stand up for privacy and freedom of expression online this UK #GeneralElection!
Will you join almost 200 people who have called on their local candidates of all political colours to protect digital rights in the next Parliament.
Use our tool to be heard ⬇️
#Election #Privacy #freedomofexpression #dataprotection #ukpolitics #digitalrights #Manifesto
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ask-your-candidates-back-digital-rights

2024-06-18 11:27:07

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Democracy means putting power in the hands of the people ✊
Data protection gives us the right to find out what information political parties hold about us; what profile they've built about us.
And we can opt-out of them using our data.
Find out more ⬇️
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #dataprotection #GDPR #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/data-and-democracy-project/

2024-06-18 11:21:06

Data profiling by political parties is mostly guesstimation of who you are.
Machine-born caricatures guiding an industry that's capable of political interference, eventually looping back into voter behaviour.
Data protection hands power back to voters.
Read our latest blog ⬇️
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #dataprotection #GDPR #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/no-data-protection-no-democracy/

2024-06-18 08:29:47

“The existing system of advertising is a system that inherently favours this exploitive model of online targeting, exactly because any system that profiles behaviour is a system that is very good at identifying vulnerabilities and addictions, and is very bad at identifying everything else.
There is a perverse incentive to target people based on their weak spots.”
🗣️ @npub1um7…wyyk, ORG Legal and Policy Officer.
#privacy #adtech #advertising #dataprotection
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366587398/Invasive-tracking-endemic-on-sensitive-support-websites

2024-06-17 11:00:13

This #RefugeeWeek ORG is celebrating #OurHome by calling for digital sanctuary 🧡
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the safe data and privacy rights as everyone else, so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
End the #DigitalHostileEnvironment!
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2024-06-13 15:15:43

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In the run up to the UK General Election, we're asking people to call on all candidates and political parties to protect digital rights in the next Parliament.
Contact your local candidates today ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/ask-your-candidates-back-digital-rights
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #dataprotection
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2024-06-13 15:14:49

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6. End intrusive tracking by online advertisers.
Advertising companies track our internet use to build detailed profiles so they can target us with adverts.
The next UK government should restrict intrusive tracking by data brokers and online advertisers.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #adtech
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2024-06-13 15:13:48

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5. Strengthen our data protection rights.
We need strong data protection laws to make sure governments and companies don't use our data to track, surveil and profit from us.
The next UK government should strengthen data protection and make sure the watchdog is fit for purpose.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #dataprotection
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2024-06-13 15:12:46

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4. Defend our right to freedom of expression online.
Freedom of expression online is being undermined by age verification, content takedowns, social media censorship and unfair copyright claims.
The next government should commit to protecting freedom of expression online.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics
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2024-06-13 15:11:47

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3. Ban the use of pre-crime AI by the police
Using AI to ‘predict’ criminal behaviour undermines our right to be presumed innocent and exacerbate discrimination and inequality in our criminal justice system.
The next UK government should ban dangerous uses of AI in policing.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #policing #AI
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2024-06-13 15:10:52

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2. Provide migrants with digital sanctuary
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the same data and privacy rights as everyone else so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
The next government should commit to ending the #DigitalHostileEnvironment
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics
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2024-06-13 15:10:01

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1. Protect our right to send secure messages
Everyone, including children and young people, should have the right to use end-to-end encryption to ensure that our communications are safe, secure and private.
The next government should protect, not undermine encryption.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #e2ee
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2024-06-13 15:09:04

ORG has launched our Manifesto to protect digital rights ✊
From URL to IRL, digital rights keep us safe from government and Big-Tech surveillance, as well as hackers and criminal threats.
Here are six pledges the next UK government should prioritise ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/digital-rights-manifesto/
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics
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2024-06-12 08:46:12

ORG developed our UK General Election Manifesto from the Digital Rights 24 Agenda.
We consulted with over 2,000 members and our advisory panel of experts to create a guide for political parties on how to protect digital rights in the UK.
Find out more ⬇️
#GeneralElection #Election #Privacy #freedomofexpression #dataprotection #ukpolitics #digitalrights #Manifesto
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/digital-rights-24/

2024-06-11 10:25:12

Calling all UK General Election candidates 📣
Today we're publishing our Digital Rights Manifesto 🦾
It's time to stop the attacks on privacy, freedom of expresssion online and data protection.
Read our six pledges to protect digital rights in the next UK Parliament ⬇️
#GeneralElection #Election #Privacy #freedomofexpression #dataprotection #ukpolitics #digitalrights #Manifesto
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/digital-rights-manifesto/

2024-06-06 14:28:21

It's a data-driven election (UK).
That's why ORG is launching a new tool so you can opt-out of political parties processing your data.
Using data to predict how people will vote and target messaging can distort the democratic process.
You should have a say.
#GeneralElection #ukpolitics #dataprotection #GDPR #data
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/general-election-opt-out-of-data-processing-by-political-parties/

2024-05-23 20:11:44

Fire up the shredders for the #DPDIBill ☠️
It’s so long, see you never 🤞 for this flawed legislation that would’ve removed controls over our data and handed power to UK government bodies and companies.
ORG and civil society organisations fought the Bill to ensure it wasn’t just nodded into law 🔥
👋
#dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics
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2024-05-09 09:06:37

⚡ Smart meter data can reveal your lifestyle habits and choices ⚡
The UK government rolled out smart meters with the pledge that they'd never share this data without the consent of users.
Then they started collecting it for 'fraud detection' to share it with credit agencies, local authorities and debt collectors.
They reduced the amount of data being collected under pressure by ORG.
BUT they're at it again ⬇️
#dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/smart-meter-data-the-government-at-it-again/

2024-05-08 14:38:01

Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.
It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine #surveillance database.
Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.
#privacy #migrant #ukpolitics
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/05/migrants-stripped-of-smartphones-ahead-of-rwanda-flights/

2024-05-07 09:33:02

"The use of surveillance is being normalised in schools to such an extent that parents often have little understanding of how their children's data, images and footage is being captured and retained."
🗣️ @npub1um7…wyyk, ORG Legal and Policy Officer.
Read more about the rise of surveillance in UK schools.
#CCTV #surveillance #privacy
https://thelead.uk/overheard-school-toilets-dangerous-rise-surveillance-uk-classrooms

2024-05-02 09:05:05

The browser you use to explore the Internet is an important choice when it comes to privacy in a world of surveillance capitalism.
Yet most asylum seekers and refugees who we surveyed with Positive Action in Housing weren’t aware of alternatives to Google. Google tracks online activity to amass a data profile of its users that can be sold to advertisers. Other browsers prioritise #privacy with enhanced options to block tracking.
Find out more here ➡️ https://restoreprivacy.com/browser/alternatives-to-chrome/
#digitalrights
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2024-04-29 07:57:00

The Immigration Exemption aims to let the UK Home Office and companies refuse requests for personal data because it might 'prejudice the maintenance of effective immigration control'.
We've fought against this exceptionalism in data protection, but the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill could undo it all.
🗣️ [@sarahalsherif](https://mas.to/@sarahalsherif) ORG Programme Manager for Migrant Digital Justice.
#DPDIBill #migrants #dataprotection #GDPR #privacy #immigration #ukpolitics
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2024-04-23 09:54:11

The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."
We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.
Read in full here ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/190Tg6VoNvWEj8x3Qw2FZnxPO2DRC3gdP/view
#Rwanda #rwandabiill #humanrights #Sunak #ukpolitics
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2024-04-18 09:12:15

Freedom of expression knows new bounds under the UK government’s imprecise redefinition of extremism.
By ministerial decree, civil society groups will be shunned from the corridors of power, blocked from funding and dissent silenced.
Read our latest blog ⬇️
#freedomofexpression #freespeech #Prevent #extremism #ukpolitics
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/extremism-redefined-caught-in-a-mouth-trap/

2024-03-25 18:54:10

MPs are now debating new powers in the Investigatory Powers Amendment Bill. The law would give the Government the power to stop companies deploying security updates that impacted on their capacity to snoop on your private messages.
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