Digital sovereignty means that a country has control over its critical tech, national infrastructure and digital policy making.

Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks.

Concerns about online safety expose a deeper problem about who controls the digital world children grow up in.

If you live in the UK and have a Facebook or Instagram account, you have probably received a message when you’ve logged in asking you if you “Want to subscribe or continue to use our Products for free ...

Big Tech Programme Manager James Baker said: “The Government is playing whack-a-mole with online safety, focusing on individual harms and product features instead of confronting the structural power ...

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 ...

Today, Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) about LiveRamp, an online ...

Open Rights Group has welcomed the announcement that the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill will be dropped as a result of the dissolution of parliament prior to the General Election.

ORG sent an urgent open letter to Michelle Donelan MP, the Secretary of State for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. The letter, signed by 26 civil society groups representing a ...

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 Online Safety Bill. These powers ...

Our report finds that the ICO repeatedly failed to take action over clear breaches of data protection law by the government. The ICO’s decision to act as a “critical friend” meant that it was left to ...