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The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the ...
The motion laid down by Labour says: That this House deplores the growth in child abuse images online; deeply regrets that up to one and a half million people have seen such images; notes with alarm ...
Executive Summary This paper addresses the privacy implications of two new Domain Name System (DNS) encryption protocols: DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Each of these protocols provides ...
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 ...
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, politicians have spent 4 years criticising the use of personal data for political campaigning, particularly on social media. Here, for the first time, ORG lifts ...
About the report The report analyses use of data in three key Covid-19 health programmes NHS Test and Trace, NHS Contract Tracing App and the NHS Datastore. It compares the ICO’s response to that of ...
The letter calls for an outright ban on predictive policing’ systems which use AI, data and algorithms to identify, profile and target individuals, groups and locations, attempting to ‘predict’ ...
This document is intended as a full overview of the Online Safety Act (OSA, or the Act) and how it works for organisations attempting to understand it and its implications. We explain the OSA’s key ...
“The Home Office’s shocking order to Apple to break encryption represents a huge attack on privacy rights and is unprecedented in any democracy. This Tribunal will determine whether the UK government ...
Online Safety Bill: US and UK campaigners warn of dangers of age verification New briefing by Open Rights Group and EFF highlights the dangers posed by age verification proposals in the Online Safety ...
Brace yourselves: new UK data laws are coming The Government have just announced their plans to gut the UK General Data Protection Regulation. They are proposing to bonfire your rights and remove the ...
26 civil society groups call on government to stop the Data Grab Bill 26 civil society organisations have written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, ...