From Friday 25 July 2025, UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social ...

ORG calls for age assurance industry to be regulated Government must regulate age assurance providers to protect users’ privacy and security as digital platforms start to implement Online Safety Act.

As Online Safety Act age verification or assurance duties kick in, on 25 July 2025, we recap what the act failed to do: regulate and protect privacy of children and adults engaging with these tools.

Thousands of Prevent referrals are made each year ostensibly to “support people susceptible to radicalisation”. The overwhelmingly majority do not meet the threshold for a Channel intervention (a ...

Safeguard private communication 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 ...

The draft Online Safety Bill’s provisions on mandatory age verification don’t just threaten your rights to privacy and freedom of expression – they also threaten the integrity of the Internet’s ...

ORG submits complaints about intrusive LiveRamp adtech system Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de ...

ORG Slams Use of e-Visas for Immigration Raids Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and ...

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 ...

Among other things, we are concerned that the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill: weakens safeguards when intelligence services collect bulk datasets of personal information, potentially allowing ...

Open Rights Group has responded to a Washington Post article that claims the UK has demanded that Apple build a backdoor to retrieve content that any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud. “In doing ...