Open Rights Group has written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall MP calling for regulation of age assurance providers operating under the Online Safety Act.

Over 550,000 people have petitioned Parliament to repeal the Online Safety Act (OSA), making it one of the largest public expressions of concern about a UK digital law in recent history. A petition to ...

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

This briefing outlines concerns people have with the way the Act is working in practice and why they are upset with how age assurance has been introduced, both unsafely and applied to a wide range of ...

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 ...

Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group said: “A costly and and divisive digital ID card scheme was not on Labour’s manifesto, and it’s the last thing this government should be embarking ...

Human rights organisations, academics and experts have written to Ofcom and the tech companies, Meta, Alphabet, X and ByteDance, asking for clarification over how they will protect the right to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report by digital campaigners, the Open Rights Group, outlines how the Online Safety Act favours big tech, and harms small websites and the general public. How to fix the Online Safety Act: A ...

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 ...