Following the conclusion of an internal HR process, the Information Commissioner is on garden leave, before his final exit.

When the “immigration exemption” became law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, it threatened the data rights of all UK residents, including British citizens. Open Rights Group and the3million ...

Daniella is a Lecturer in Law at KCL. She researches UK public law, with a focus on Executive power, national security, parliamentary democracy, political economy and human rights, including the right ...

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. This includes ...

Signatories of joint statement, including Mozilla, Tor and Open Rights Group, call on ministers to address root causes of online harm rather than pursue blanket access restrictions. A group of tech ...

Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks. This means UK users may be required to submit ...

Stop nasty trackers and analytics on your phone apps by installing Blockada on Android or Lockdown Privacy on Apple devices.

Over 80 civil society organisations, academics and cyber experts from 23 countries have written to the UK government to raise the alarm about proposed powers in the Online Safety Bill. These powers ...

26 civil society organisations have written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, calling for the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill ...

From 1 January 2025, people who have right to remain in the UK must have an e-Visas to apply for work, apply to use housing and other services, and to re-enter the UK. Other documents such as ...

Incredible as it may seem, thanks to the Online Safety Act, dozens of harmless, safe, small websites are closing down by 17 March, rather than face threats of fines that could lose their operators ...

This blog aims to be an in-depth analysis, using some analytical tools that you may not be familiar with. They should be reasonably intuitive, but take your time if you can, as I try to bring some new ...