Open Rights Group
Bare all to access porn? Ofcom’s (UK) age verification rules will expose people to cybercrime.
Protecting children mustn’t enable scammers to trick people into handing over data or blackmailers to exploit sexual interests.
Privacy and security come hand in hand.
Read our response ⬇️
#ofcom #ageverification #porn #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #cybersecurity
Open Rights Group
We need stronger data protection laws and enforcement with a guarantee that age verification systems are private, safe and secure.
The new plans miss this vital step at a time when the Data Use and Access Bill (UK) threatens to weaken data rights, as well as the Information Commissioner's Office already having a poor record of enforcing the law.
#ofcom #ICO #ageverification #porn #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #cybersecurity #DataBill #DUABill
Open Rights Group
Police surveillance of young people's social media posts is used to create 'gang' narratives where they don't exist.
The Manchester 10 case and the recent appeal outcome reveals how digital 'evidence' is used unjustly to embroil people on conspiracy charges.
Open Rights Group
People should own the Town square!
Mastodon is moving ownership to a new European non-profit organisation, ensuring the fediverse is free of the control of a single individual or venture capital.
If you want to support the fediverse, Mastodon needs to grow its budget to €5 million in 2025.
Find out more and contribute ⬇️
#mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
Open Rights Group
Public trust is critical when using sensitive health data, as highlighted by issues with the NHS Covid tracking app.
Our report revealed the harms and profiteering by private companies that resulted from the Information Commissioner's Office's failure to enforce data protection law.
Open Rights Group
How health data will be used in AI models MUST be fully transparent and WITH patient's consent. Why?
⚫ People can be re-identified from supposedly anonymised data.
⚫ Big Tech firms like Palantir hope to grab huge amounts of our personal medical data for profit.
Open Rights Group
At the same time as announcing the AI action plan, the UK government is trying to pass the Data Use and Access Bill.
This will weaken:
⚫ Data rights over solely automated decisions.
⚫ The power of the regulator (ICO) to enforce data protection law.
Open Rights Group
“People buy a TV to watch programmes, but it turns out the TV is also watching us.
Not content with selling data on viewing habits, it appears manufacturers increasingly want to stick AI-empowered surveillance into their products.”
🗣️ @JamesBaker - ORG Programme Manager
#surveillance #AI #dataprotection
https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/10/samsungs-new-tv-will-allow-parents-spy-children-22333940/
Open Rights Group
Billionaires and corporations have taken over our digital spaces – it’s time to reclaim social media 🌍
Free Our Feeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative of open tech and independent infrastructure and social apps.
Chip in to today – social media must serve people, not profit #FreeOurFeeds
Open Rights Group
With Meta bending the knee to a Musk addled Trump, free speech on social media is in a politico-corporate bubble.
And these bros in arms say it's all in the name of free speech! It's enough to make you think double.
Breaking these monopolies and fostering diverse, user-driven platforms is essential to ensuring a free and fair society.
Read our latest blog ⬇️
#meta #twitter #x #freespeech #freedomofexpression #zuckerberg #musk #trump #digitalrights #fediverse
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/musk-and-zuck-engineering-free-speech/
Open Rights Group
The Data Bill will strip back your ability to challenge life-changing decisions made by AI.
Will you join over 900 people who've signed our petition to protect the right to human review of automated decisions?
Tell the UK government we want #PeopleNotMachines.
Open Rights Group
New year, new you? New job?
At Open Rights Group, we're on the look out for a Campaigns Manager to take on Big Tech in defence of our digital rights.
💷 £30,000-£34,000 (4 days a week)
🗓️ 18 months Fixed Term
⏰ Closing 9am on 15 January 2025
Apply now ➡️ https://app.beapplied.com/apply/pcenlrf2kl?utm_source=mastadon
Open Rights Group
2025 is coming. And with it is the Data Bill, an Ai Bill, Ofcom's consultation on encryption, and the expanding influence of Big Tech in public life.
As a grassroots organisation 🌱, we need your support to fight for everyone's #DigitalRights in the UK!
Become a member today 🦾 ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
#DigitalRIghtsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #ORG2024
Open Rights Group
The end of 2024 saw another attempt to change data protection law in the #DataBill (UK).
We brought together 53 experts and civil society groups in an open letter ot the UK government. We called on them to scrap proposals that'll strip back the right to human review of solely automated decisions that can have life-changing consequences.
Open Rights Group
ORG challenged Meta's plans to scrape users' content to train its AI, calling for it to be stopped.
The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, closed our complaint in line with their continued failure to enforce data protection rights.
#ORG2024 #Meta #AI #dataprotection #GDPR #privacy #digitalrights
Open Rights Group
In 2024 ORG submitted a complaint about LiveRamp, an online advertising and data broking company.
The privacy-intrusive system combines online and offline identifiers to profile Internet users, linking browsing with real identities.
Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-complaint-liveramp-adtech/
#ORG2024 #privacy #adtech #dataprotection #liveramp #digitalrights
Open Rights Group
So that was 2024 and this is ORG’s annual review ✨
It was a year when it became increasingly clear why we need digital rights and ORG was there to bang the drum.
From Data Bills to Prevent. From e-Visas to data profiling for ads and AI. From predictive policing to an election…
Here’s the round-up ⬇️
#digitalrightsarehumanrights #digitalrights #dataprotection #privacy #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #humanrights
Open Rights Group
@ThePlant Russ Garret has written a good summary of what is required of small providers if anyone wants to learn more - https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
Open Rights Group
We are sad to see that @ThePlant has decided to close the GamingonLinux forum, a result of the Online Safety Act. We warned politicians that their attempts to regulate the net in the UK would destroy the best bits of the internet when trying to tackle the worst. #OFCOM #OnlineSafetyAct #Linux
Open Rights Group
Is this the first casualty of the Online Safety Act? An online cycling community web forum with over 60K users shutting down - as they say dealing with the compliance requirements of the act is too much - https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/ #OSA #censorship
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