The court responsible for hearing Apple’s challenge against the UK Government demanding that it breaks encryption has rejected the Home Office’s bid to have the case heard in secret. Earlier this year ...

Rachel joined ORG in 2025 as Operations Manager (Maternity Cover). She works across the whole of the organisation with a particular focus on finance and HR. Rachel has over a decade of experience in ...

Alberico is a trade unionist, campaigner, and researcher. He has a BSc in Politics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics, and a Master’s of Arts in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths ...

Digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group (ORG) have responded to the publication of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. ORG’s Platform Power Programme Manager James Baker said: “ORG welcomes ...

To Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology To Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and ...

Democracy organisations, privacy groups and academics have written to government ministers to warn that powers in the Data Use and Access (DUA) Bill could threaten the integrity of future elections.

Henry VIII clauses are delegated legislative powers that allow the government to override or amend primary legislation as it was enacted by Parliament. The Data Use and Access Bill makes extensive use ...

Four years ago, human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll took on social media giant Meta when they refused to stop collecting and processing her personal data for targeted advertising. Swee Leng is an ...

The Board of Directors oversees Open Rights Group’s work, which includes staffing, fundraising and responsibility for policy.

William cofounded Kable Ltd (sold to Guardian New & Media in 2007), Ctrl-Shift Ltd, and Mydex CIC. He was a founding Open Rights Group member, and second chair of the ORG Board. More recently in Bath ...

Since joining Open Rights Group in January 2009, Jim has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users, and against pervasive ...