From Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social ...

Tell the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology that Age Assurance done under the Online Safety Act must be safe, private and trusted. Open Rights Group has warned of serious privacy and ...

Thousands of Prevent referrals are made each year ostensibly to “support people susceptible to radicalisation”. The overwhelmingly majority do not meet the threshold for a Channel intervention (a ...

Open Rights Group has warned that Online Safety Bill, which has been passed in parliament, will make us less secure by threatening our privacy and undermining our freedom of expression.

What’s the Harm in the Online Safety Bill? Throughout the development of the government’s Online Harms policy, a central concern of ORG and other human rights organisations is how any legally mandated ...

Open letter to the UK government from over 80 national and international civil society organisations, academics and cyberexperts raising concerns about the serious threat to the security of private ...

Let’s look at how the Online Safety Bill brings the contents of your private communications into scope for scanning, monitoring, and censorship.

The Data Grab Bill attacks our data rights ORG sent an urgent open letter to Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. The letter, ...

Access denied: Service blocking in the Online Safety Bill As the Online Safety Bill approaches the pre-legislative scrutiny process, attention is being drawn to the powers which government will have ...

Among other things, we are concerned that the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill: weakens safeguards when intelligence services collect bulk datasets of personal information, potentially allowing ...

Open Rights Group shared this guide for political parties to help inform the digital policies in their manifestos for the 2024 General Election.