FIGHTING FOR YOUR RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online.
We fight for a fair digital environment where technology supports justice, equality and freedom. We campaign, lobby, go to court – whatever it takes to challenge restrictions to our human rights.
Impact
40k+
Number of ORG members and supporters
10
The number of cities in the UK with active ORG local groups
£33k+
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Digital Privacy
16 Jul 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
Meta Wants to Make Us its AI Guinea Pigs
Meta, the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, has announced plans to repurpose most of the personal data that they ever collected about you, to train their “artificial intelligence (AI) technologies” — without, of course, asking your permission to do so.
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02 Jul 2024 By Jim Killock
What we learnt from the manifestos
For the General Election 2024, we extracted everything we could from the manifestos of each UK political party, to understand what their understanding of digital rights issues is, and what we might expect from a new government.
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Data and Democracy
18 Jun 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
No Data Protection, No Democracy
As the General Election approaches, political parties in the UK are clashing and competing in the attempt to win voters, leaving no stone unturned—including the use of digital technologies.
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Digital Privacy
08 May 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again
Back in October 2022, ORG exposed Government plans to snoop on UK residents’ smart meters and energy consumption data.
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