Personal data transfers between the EU and the US are made possible by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (EU-US DPF), under ...

The eVisa scheme, has been plagued by widely known problems during the six years since it was first rolled out in 2020. People trying to prove their immigration status have reported mistakes in the ...

Dear Dame Chi Onwurah MP, We are a coalition of 20 civil society groups and experts, active in the fields of immigration policy, data protection, and human rights. We wish to thank the Science, ...

Peter Sommer combines academic and public policy work with commercial cyber security consultancy, with a strong bias towards legal issues. His first degree is in law, from Oxford University. He has ...

Andy Burnham’s likely succession to lead the current Labour government gives him the chance to reset digital policy. There is a lot to be gained from a new approach. Here is our advice to him and the ...

Stop Killing Games has teamed up with global rights respecting organisations, including Open Rights Group, to form Stop Killing the Internet, a global movement defending the open Internet. A ...

As the United Nations Refugee Agency recently noted, the UK’s asylum application system is under a great deal of stress. Staff morale is low, staff turnover is high, and there is a significant backlog ...

This blog aims to be an in-depth analysis, using some analytical tools that you may not be familiar with. They should be reasonably intuitive, but take your time if you can, as I try to bring some new ...

Open Rights Group’s Executive Director Jim Killock said: “John Edward’s departure is a chance for the Government to appoint a regulator with teeth, and reset the regulators’ approach of providing data ...

Open Rights Group has responded to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement that the Government will ban social media, including gaming sites, for under 16s in the UK. “These headline-grabbing ...

Open Rights Group is urging MPs to vote for an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would require the government to develop a Digital Sovereignty strategy that would help secure ...

The hostile environment has always been a policy of intimidation. Now, it has become digital. Algorithms sift through asylum claims. AI facial recognition tools will be used to estimate the ages of ...