Our new report asks a profound question: just how dependent is the UK on US technology, and what could that mean for the UK’s ...

Executive Summary Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty The high cost of digital dependency In Part I The Digital Sovereignty challenge we find: The UK’s current position Part II Current UK policy position ...

Open Rights Group has responded to the verdict of an LA court that Meta and YouTube are liable for deliberately engineering addictive products and for failing to safeguard users. “Social media giants ...

The ICO must investigate a Reform UK ‘competition’ which asks the public to hand over details of their voting preferences in order to be eligible to win their energy bills being paid for a year.

MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s. Instead, they have voted to give ministers much broader powers which ...

Open Rights Group (ORG) and 28 civil society organisations raise concerns about the concentration of power and lack of alternatives in digital markets. ORG calls for the UK government to develop its ...

Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks. This means UK users may be required to submit ...

Stop nasty trackers and analytics on your phone apps by installing Blockada on Android or Lockdown Privacy on Apple devices.

The UK government has launched a public consultation into imposing a blanket ban on social media for under-16s. Open Rights Group warns that this would be a damaging and ineffective response to online ...

Open Rights Group has called on MPs to implement a digital sovereignty strategy to reduce the UK’s reliance on US tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Palantir, for its digital ...

The Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill’s second reading is scheduled for 6 January. The Bill aims to make “provision … about the security and resilience of network and information systems used or ...

This briefing outlines concerns people have with the way the Act is working in practice and why they are upset with how age assurance has been introduced, both unsafely and applied to a wide range of ...