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WEBOpen 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 ...
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WEBSep 17, 2024 · SUBMISSION TO PARLIAMENT Addressing automated, arbitrary, algorithmic censorship in the Online Safety BillJune 2022 Contents About Open Rights Group 2 Addressing automated, arbitrary algorithmic censorship 2 Our concerns and recommendations 2 Summary 3 Automated censorship and arbitrary restrictions 4 Content moderation systems 5 Arbitrary restrictions 6 Why prevent has a special meaning ...
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WEBJul 17, 2024 · 70 organizations, cyber security experts, and elected officials sign open letter expressing dangers of Online Safety Bill On 24 November, seventy civil society organizations, companies, elected officials, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published an open letter to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighting their concerns with the threat that the ...
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WEBFounded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital rights organisation that campaigns to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world ...
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WEBWhat’s legal to say should be legal to type. SUBMISSION TO PARLIAMENT Addressing automated, arbitrary, algorithmic censorship in the Online Safety BillJune 2022 Contents About Open Rights Group 2 Addressing automated, arbitrary algorithmic censorship 2 Our concerns and recommendations 2 Summary 3 Automated censorship and arbitrary restrictions 4 Content moderation systems 5 Arbitrary ...
Hands Off Our Data - Open Rights Group
WEBData protection rights protect people across all aspects of life – at work, using NHS services, applying for jobs or renting a flat. As the use of flawed and biased decision-making algorithms increases across every sector, data protection is particularly important for protecting the rights of marginalised groups, including migrants, LGBTQ people and people from racialised backgrounds.
Digital Rights Manifesto - Open Rights Group
WEBJun 11, 2024 · After a sustained period of attacks on our rights to privacy and freedom of expression, we called on all candidates and political parties in the 2024 General Election to protect digital rights.
ORG and the 3million win in court again | Open Rights Group
WEBDec 11, 2023 · Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group said: “The question now is whether the government will finally act after yet another court tells it that the Immigration Exemption is unlawful or whether they will continue to waste taxpayers’ money on trying to undermine migrants’ data protection rights.
A dangerous precedent for global censorship - Open Rights Group
WEBMar 4, 2024 · ORG responds to Ofcom’s Online Safety Act plans Last week, Open Rights Group responded to Ofcom’s Illegal Harms consultation, the first of a series of consultations Ofcom will be holding on the development of its guidance for the Online Safety Act.
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WEBJul 15, 2024 · Powers to imprison social media executives mirrors those exercised by Vladimir Putin in Russia Ministerial powers to censor legal content still in place Shifting bill promises more policy failures and disappointment Responding to the news of the Government’s republication of the draft Online Safety Bill, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, Jim Killock, said: “The fact that the ...