Justice Secretary, David Lammy, has announced plans to drastically reduce the use of jury trials in England and Wales.

New report finds that the Home Office’s digital-only immigration status system is leaving migrants in the UK stressed, confused and fearful. Digital status does not affect all migrants equally: those ...

Public sector approach has failed to protect the public from bad data management, leaving government and public bodies on a weak footing to face growing data security threats Over 70 civil society ...

Ofcom has launched a blandly titled consultation on “Additional Safety Measures” designed to implement the next round of duties within the Online Safety Act (OSA). The proposals target livestreaming ...

When the UK last proposed age verification for adult content online, we analysed the deficiencies with the proposed code of practice for AV, which, as with the current Ofcom codes, left providers to ...

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 ...

The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the order today. On Wednesday, MPs voted for the direct action group to be ...

Profiling is the recording and categorisation of these thousands of data points into a digital profile. Algorithms look for patterns in our data which provide information about our shopping habits, ...

The Online Safety Act 2023 is a complex piece of legislation that places extensive duties on Internet service providers regarding content moderation, transparency reporting, and age verification. It ...

Open Rights Group believes that Ofcom should root its regulation, and the UK Parliament should base its law, in human rights law, taking advantage of prior work on content moderation such as: the 2013 ...

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and flawed eVisa scheme a ‘success’ and says that it ...

Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, sit at the intersection of the attention economy and surveillance capitalism. Meta’s business model is built on maximising user attention while ...