Open Rights Group
Meta has admitted to scraping images from users in Australia to train its AI without offering an opt-out option.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/facebook-scraping-photos-data-no-opt-out/104336170
This distain for privacy is why ORG has complained to the Information Commissioner's Office to issue a legally binding decision in the UK to prevent this practice without opt-in consent.
Open Rights Group
Up to 4 million migrants could face a repeat of the Windrush scandal as physical documents get replaced by e-Visas.
With a flawed rollout and unreliable systems, people may be unable to prove their right to be in the UK.
Sign the petition to #stopEvisas.
#migrants #digitalrights #ukpolitics
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-stop-e-visas-becoming-next-windrush-scandal
Open Rights Group
WATCH AGAIN. Our webinar is now available to watch on demand.
Hear from our expert panel about the problems with the e-Visa scheme and the risk to migrants of removing physical proof of status.
A digital Windrush scandal must be averted. Find out how ⬇️
Open Rights Group
We've joined 27 rights and racial justice groups to oppose the expansion of live facial recognition in the UK.
Use of this intrusive, discriminatory surveillance technology and the mass collection of biometric data must be halted.
Read more about the open letter from Big Brother Watch ⬇️
#StopFacialRecognition #surveillance #facialrecognition #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
Is privacy back on the chopping block in the UK? 🤔
A Digital Information and Smart Data Bill has been announced with a narrower scope around #dataprotection reform.
We warn against reintroducing elements of the disastrous #DPDIBill – from liberalising data sharing to threatening the data watchdog and the UK-EU adequacy agreement.
We need socially responsible innovation within limits... strong data protection in other words.
Read now ⬇️
Open Rights Group
Predictive policing is UNJUST.
It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.
With 16 other civil society groups, we say:
BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime.
Read our open letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SafetyNotSurveillance-open-letter-Jul-24.pdf
Open Rights Group
'Predictive policing’ uses AI to identify, profile and target individuals and groups.
This disproportionately impacts marginalised communities.
Attempts to 'predict' criminal acts, or the 'risk' of criminalised acts, only compounds power imbalances.
#SafetyNotSurveillance #AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
Today 17 civil society groups have written to the UK Home Secretary about AI in policing.
We want:
⚫ An outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance systems
⚫ Transparency, accountability, accessibility and redress for all other automated and AI systems in policing
Our open letter ⬇️
#SafetyNotSurveillance #AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
We were pleased to see the Government reject Tony Blair's calls for ID cards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87rgj4e0rzo.amp #IDcards #DigitalRights #Privacy
Open Rights Group
“What we’re talking about is a kind of self-negating paradox. You cannot do mass surveillance privately, full stop.”
@Mer__edith telling it as it is when it comes to attempts to crush encryption with client-side scanning on private messaging apps.
Open Rights Group
ORG has launched our Manifesto to protect digital rights ✊
From URL to IRL, digital rights keep us safe from government and Big-Tech surveillance, as well as hackers and criminal threats.
Here are six pledges the next UK government should prioritise ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/digital-rights-manifesto/
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #dataprotection #adtech
Open Rights Group
1. Protect our right to send secure messages.
Everyone, including children and young people, should have the right to use end-to-end encryption to ensure that our communications are safe, secure and private.
The next UK government should protect, not undermine encryption.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #e2ee
Open Rights Group
2. Provide migrants with digital sanctuary.
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers need the same data and privacy rights as everyone else so that they can keep their digital identity and information safe.
The next UK government should commit to ending the #DigitalHostileEnvironment
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #migrants
Open Rights Group
3. Ban the use of pre-crime AI by the police.
Using AI to ‘predict’ criminal behaviour undermines our right to be presumed innocent and exacerbate discrimination and inequality in our criminal justice system.
The next UK government should ban dangerous uses of AI in policing.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #policing #AI #surveillance
Open Rights Group
4. Defend our right to freedom of expression online.
Freedom of expression online is being undermined by age verification, content takedowns, social media censorship and unfair copyright claims.
The next UK government should commit to protecting freedom of expression online.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics
Open Rights Group
5. Strengthen our data protection rights.
We need strong data protection laws to make sure governments and companies don't use our data to track, surveil and profit from us.
The next UK government should strengthen data protection and make sure the watchdog is fit for purpose.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #dataprotection
Open Rights Group
6. End intrusive tracking by online advertisers.
Advertising companies track our internet use to build detailed profiles so they can target us with adverts.
The next UK government should restrict intrusive tracking by data brokers and online advertisers.
#GeneralElection #DigitalRights #DigitalRightsAreHumanRights #privacy #freedomofexpression #Manifesto #ukpolitics #adtech
Open Rights Group
Fire up the shredders for the #DPDIBill ☠️
It’s so long, see you never 🤞 for this flawed legislation that would’ve removed controls over our data and handed power to UK government bodies and companies.
ORG and civil society organisations fought the Bill to ensure it wasn’t just nodded into law 🔥
👋
Open Rights Group
Confiscating migrants' mobile phones deprives people of access to the Internet and support networks.
It isolates people being held by the UK State and restricts their ability to exercise legal rights in the #DigitalHostileEnvironment.
This follows a previous Home Office policy to seize mobile phones and extract data onto the Project Sunshine #surveillance database.
Despite the practice being ruled illegal, the government is at it again.
Open Rights Group
"While the UK government adopted powers that could allow the private messages of everyone in the UK to be scanned, it did concede that this could not be put into practice without jeopardizing people’s security and privacy.
ORG has called for Ofcom to publish regulations that make clear that there is no available technology that can allow for scanning of user data to co-exist with strong #encryption and #privacy.“
🗣️ Pam Cowburn, ORG Head of Comms.
We fight for digital rights (UK). Join us.#privacy #freespeech #surveillance #censorship #dataprotection
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