2025 is coming. And with it is the Data Bill, an Ai Bill, Ofcom's consultation on encryption, and the expanding influence of Big Tech in public life.
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The end of 2024 saw another attempt to change data protection law in the #DataBill (UK).
We brought together 53 experts and civil society groups in an open letter to the UK government. We called on them to scrap proposals that'll strip back the right to human review of solely automated decisions that can have life-changing consequences.
Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI systems.
ORG published our 'e-Visas: Hostile and Broken' report about the UK Home Office's flawed e-Visa scheme.
We warned that an online-only proof of status could create a digital Windrush scandal, leading to the scheme's roll-out being delayed.
We hope this will be an opportunity to bring in changes that will ensure people can prove their immigration status in any circumstance.
#ORG2024 #eVisa #immigration #HostileEnvironment #digitalrights #migrants #ukpolitics
A new report by digital rights campaigners, Open Rights Group, has warned that the Government’s e-Visa scheme could lead to a digital Windrush scandal where people who have the right to be in the UK are unable to prove it, with life-changing consequences.
In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.
With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.
The #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition – a group of organisations working at the intersections of human rights, racial justice and technology – have written to the Home Secretary calling for safeguards against the harms of AI systems in policing, including an outright ban on predictive policing and biometric surveillance systems.
With political parties trying to predict how you'll vote, ORG launched a tool to help you opt-out of them processing your data for voter profiling.
Findings from our work into how UK parties use your data will be published in 2025 👀
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/general-election-opt-out-of-data-processing-by-political-parties/
ORG launched our digital rights manifesto for the UK General Election, calling on all candidates to support:
⚫️ Encryption
⚫️ Digital sanctuary
⚫️ Banning pre-crime AI
⚫️ Freedom of expression online
⚫️ Strong data protection
⚫️ Ending intrusive online advertising
Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/digital-rights-manifesto/
#ORG2024 #dataprotection #encryption #precrime #freedomofexpression #adtech #digitalsanctuary #ukpolitics #generalelection
This year we published our report into the UK data watchdog (Information Commissioner's Office).
We found an overly cautious approach to the enforcement of data protection law. This prioritises government and corporate preferences over the need for personal security.
We need strong data protection laws and a strong regulator who will act as the first line of defence for the British public.
Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/icos-failure-to-enforce-is-putting-the-public-at-risk/
ORG challenged Meta's plans to scrape users' content to train its AI, calling for it to be stopped.
The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, closed our complaint in line with their continued failure to enforce data protection rights.
#ORG2024 #Meta #AI #dataprotection #GDPR #privacy #digitalrights
In 2024 ORG submitted a complaint about LiveRamp, an online advertising and data broking company.
The privacy-intrusive system combines online and offline identifiers to profile Internet users, linking browsing with real identities.
Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-complaint-liveramp-adtech/
#ORG2024 #privacy #adtech #dataprotection #liveramp #digitalrights
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 advertising and data broking company.
Saved by the election bell, the DPDI Bill was binned off after a long battle to protect our data rights.
Many of the changes to data protection law in the UK have fallen away. But the fight continues to stop the regurgitated elements in the new Data Use and Access Bill.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/data-use-and-access-bill-will-fail-to-protect-public-from-ai-harms/
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