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+
Raised for our immigration exemption legal challenge
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From the Immigration Exception to the Covid-19 app, we protect digital rights
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Digital Privacy
23 Dec 2024 By Pam Cowburn
ORG Review 2024
It’s been another busy year for digital rights, with the added excitement of an earlier than expected General Election!
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Free expression online
18 Nov 2024 By Jim Killock
The Twitter Xodus: Time to stay or time to go
“We’re here, because we’re here.
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Digital Privacy
08 Oct 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
The ICO is leaving an AI enforcement gap in the UK
In response to our formal complaint to the ICO against Meta’s use of personal data to train Artificial Intelligence models without consent, the ICO has invited Open Rights Group (ORG) to a meeting to discuss our concerns.
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Digital Privacy
18 Sep 2024 By Jim Killock
e-Visas: The Next Digital Windrush Scandal
Our report, “Hostile and Broken” released today, explains why e-Visas risk creating tens or hundreds of thousands of errors, with people potentially turned down for jobs, or unable to enter the country, as the result of electronic failures of the new online, real time re-checking inherent in the UK e-Visa scheme.
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