Ofcom’s consultation on safeguarding children online exposes significant problems regarding the proposed implementation of age-gating measures.

ORG exposed Government plans to snoop on UK residents’ smart meters and energy consumption data. In July 2023, the Government backtracked on their plans following ORG’s campaigning, in particular by ...

· Open Rights Group, the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights organisation, is submitting evidence about its human rights concerns relating to the IPA Bill. · The requirement that operators must ...

LIBE committee raises concerns about Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to UK government and European Commission. The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) ...

When individuals migrate, their data migrates with them. When people leave their countries to travel and live in different places whether as migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers, they are not only ...

In our latest briefing, Open Rights Group raises the alarm over changes in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI Bill) that could open the floodgate for the abuse of data analytics ...

Last month, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove MP, announced a new and expanded definition of extremism as part of the Government’s Counter Terrorism ...

Interferences with our right to privacy and data protection are admissible only and insofar they represent a necessary and proportionate mean to achieve another, worthy objective. This principle does ...

In this briefing, we explain how the proposed changes to the UK data protection framework that would be introduced by the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would weaken legal safeguards ...

The Home Office has for several years run a programme to supply Mosques, temples and Synagogues with security equipment including CCTV cameras. This has recently been extended with more than £117m ...

Martin Goose ICO failed to address bad data practices by professional body Back in 2018/2019 I became increasingly concerned about the out of date security of my professional body’s Internet facing ...