Open Rights Group
BREAKING: The UK government's attempt hold the Apple encryption case entirely in secret has been REJECTED.
ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court arguing for open justice.
In a win for privacy rights, the court agrees.
It said it didn't accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.
Open Rights Group
Is the UK government building an ID system by stealth with the gov.uk wallet?
Companies in the digtial ID sector think so.
Creating a portal that all our interactions with government have to go through could evolve into national identity database with considerable implications for our privacy.
Open Rights Group
NEW: The UK government has published its Cyber Security Bill and there are glaring holes.
Missing:
🔴 Protections for encryption.
🔴 Reduction of our dependence on US corporations for vital UK government infrastructure, such as through open source software.
Read our response ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-response-to-cyber-security-bill/
#cybersecurity #cybersecuritybill #security #encryption #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
Meta has admitted that users have the right opt-out of stalker ads. Now what for our data rights?
Join our webinar to explore the impact of
Tanya O'Carroll's case against Meta.
🗓️ Wed 16 April
🕕 6–7.30pm BST
📍 Zoom
Register Now ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/webinar-taking-on-meta-what-next-for-our-data-stalker-ads/
#meta #dataprotection #gdpr #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech #privacy #facebook
Open Rights Group
Four years ago, human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll took on social media giant Meta when they refused to stop collecting and processing her personal data for targeted advertising.
In March 2025, Meta settled and agreed to honour O’Carroll’s right to object.
Now it's your turn to opt-out.
Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech
Open Rights Group
What happens encrypted, stays encrypted… unless you add the world press to the chat 🤡
How to #PracticeSafeText:
1️⃣ Use end-to-end encryption.
2️⃣ Check your contacts.
FAO: The US Administration.
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #uspolitics #signal #trump #hegseth #theatlantic #uspol
Open Rights Group
📣 📣 ✊ Tanya O’Carrol WINS against #Meta:
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising, concedes in legal case!
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: targeted ads and profiling are NOT something you must simply tolerate.
Open Rights Group
“The Online Safety Act [UK] places onerous duties on small websites and blogs that may lead them to close or geoblock UK users rather than risk penalties. The closure of small sites will not keep children safe but will benefit bigger sites, including Facebook and X, who are laying waste to content moderation on their platforms."
The UK government can exempt small, safe websites to protect #netplurality.
🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker
Open Rights Group
The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.
Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.
This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/
#OnlineSafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ofcom #netplurality #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #ukpol
Open Rights Group
Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
⚫️ Check if they have UK users
⚫️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
⚫️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives
#fediverse #onlinesafetyact #ofcom #netplurality #mastodon #onlinesafety #tech
Open Rights Group
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
✅ Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances
✅ The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #fediverse #netplurality #mastodon #ukpolitics #ukpol #tech
Open Rights Group
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality
Open Rights Group
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn
Sign our petition ➡️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech
Open Rights Group
"This is a significant test for the battle between law enforcement and technology.”
Holding the Apple case in secret makes the legal process more cloak and dagger, less scales and sword.
It makes it harder to challenge the UK government's order to break encryption and creates a dangerous precedent.
This case sets the stage for more shady encryption-breaking orders to be made.
#encryption #e2ee #Apple #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #security #tech #cybersecurity
Open Rights Group
The battle for encryption happens TODAY. Your right to privacy and security will be decided behind your back.
We call for the hearing to be made public.
Encryption must be protected from this slippery slope.
Sign and share our petition to have your say ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #tech #Apple
Open Rights Group
📣 Make it public!
The call is getting louder for a public hearing of the appeal over the UK's order to break Apple encryption.
Alongside the joint letter from ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship, UK MPs, US Congress Members and the BBC want the secrecy to end.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g0rr51gn3o
#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #Apple #tech
Open Rights Group
UK MPs have joined the chorus of voices wanting the Apple case to be held in public.
"If the Home Office wants to have effectively unfettered access to the private data of the (innocent) general public, they should explain their case in front of the public."
🗣️ David Davis MP.
"People deserve to know what's happening to their private personal information."
🗣️ Victoria Collins MP.
#encryption #e2ee #Apple #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
Bipartisan US Congress Members want the secrecy around the UK's encryption-breaking order to be lifted.
"It is imperative that the UK's technical demands of Apple - and of any other US companies - be subjected to robust, public analysis and debate."
“Secret court hearings featuring intelligence agencies and a handful of individuals approved by them do not enable robust challenges on highly technical matters.”
Open Rights Group
The message is clear across the political divide: let's hear it!
The UK government should argue in open court why they want to make us less secure by ordering a backdoor into Apple encryption.
A secret Tribunal would be an affront to the privacy and security issues at stake. It must be held in public.
Read the joint letter from ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship ⬇️
#Apple #encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech
Open Rights Group
📣 Break the silence: Save encryption!
The UK government wants to be able to access anything, anywhere, any time — from your pics to your docs.
It begins with Apple. Other services will be next. That's why we must take a stand NOW!
Sign and share our petition ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
#encryption #e2ee #Apple #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #icloud #tech
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