Open Rights GroupDec 29, 2022

đŸ§” 1/12 It’s been a big year at Open Rights Group in the fight to protect digital rights. We’ve put together some of our highlights and set out what’s ahead for another critical year. #DigitalRights #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-org-review-of-2022/

The ORG Review of 2022

2022 has been a tumultuous year for Digital Rights in the UK. Ebbs in the Political chaos resulted in a flow of unhelpful domestic legislation. Measures that protect us from Data Discrimination are being eroded as the Government amends UK GDPR Data Protection laws with their Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, aka the Data Discrimination Bill.  [
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2/12: We launched our Migrant Digital Justice Programme to protect people from digital discrimination and strengthen the digital rights of migrant communities. #MigrantDigitalJustice #DigitalRights

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/immigration-policy-project/

Migrant Digital Justice Programme

ORG’s work on immigration aims to empower the sector to work and campaign against the increasing collection of personal data, data sharing and new technologies driving immigration controls. We work in partnership with organisations supporting all categories of migrants and refugees to address digital rights and privacy issues affecting their clients and understand how data [
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3/12 We launched the Migrant Digital Justice Toolkit during the Solidarity Knows No Borders Week of Action. This major piece of work empowers individuals and organisations seeking to protect the digital rights of migrants. #MigrantDigitalJustice #DigitalRights

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/migrant-digital-justice-toolkit/

Migrant Digital Justice Toolkit

How-to-fight data discrimination – launching a new toolkit for the migrants’ rights sector The Migrant Digital Justice Programme (MDJP) at ORG is proud to launch our Migrant Digital Justice Toolkit. The toolkit has been developed for the migrants’ rights sector in response to the increasing use of data and technology for immigration enforcement and the [
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4/12 Together with the Migrant Rights Network and Migrants at Work, we launched the #ChallengeTheChecks campaign. This work uncovers the negative effects of expecting employers to enforce immigration law in the workplace. #MigrantDigitalJustice #DigitalRights

https://migrantsrights.org.uk/2022/09/29/campaign-launch-challenge-the-checks/

Campaign Launch: Challenge The Checks - Migrants’ Rights Network

Migrants’ Rights Network, Migrants at Work and Open Rights Group have partnered in a campaign to #ChallengeTheChecks.

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5/12 After the Government failed to implement the court ruling on the immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act 2018 that we won in 2021, we teamed up with The 3Million to mount a second legal challenge. #DigitalRights #Immigration

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/government-disregards-courts-immigration-exemption-ruling/

Government disregards Court’s Immigration Exemption ruling

This week the House of Commons and the House of Lords will consider the Government’s proposed legislation regarding amendments to the immigration exemption.

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6/12 We drew attention to the worrying trend of young people being criminalised for what they post online, often before a crime has ever taken place. We launched a SAR template to help people protect their rights. #DigitalRights #PreCrime #Privacy

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/young-people-are-being-criminalised-for-content/

Young people criminalised for content

It’s a modern-day reality that pretty much anyone can go online today and write what they want with some form of audience available to them – whether that’s Facebook friends, Twitter followers or readers of a personal blog.

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7/12 Our Head of Policy and Litigation raised concerns that the government “left a significant part of the data processing to third parties, including Meta and Palantir” as part of the #HomesForUkraine scheme, compromising refugee safety. #Privacy #dataprotection

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/privacy-organisation-criticizes-government-over-failure-to-protect-the-safety-and-privacy-of-ukrainian-refugees/

Privacy organisation criticizes Government over failure to protect the safety and privacy of Ukrainian Refugees 

Embargo: Immediate A BBC investigation has revealed that the government’s re-settlement scheme for Ukrainian refugees puts vulnerable people at risk of serious harm from people traffickers and others.  The scheme forces the public to self-organise matches of hosts and refugees before a UK host can register. It was entirely foreseeable that people would turn to [
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8/12 We live-streamed a Mastodon webinar for campaigners, NGOs and politicians after seeing a massive surge in people interested in alternative decentralized platforms. Watch in full here.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTF2TfEHdY

ORG Mastodon Tutorial for UK NGOs and non-profits

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9/12 We sounded 'Red Alert' as the Government announced a bonfire of data rights under the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, aka #DataDiscriminationBill. Watch our briefing here.

#GDPR #ukpolitics #DataProtection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD1sNNn8qEU

Data Discrimination Bill Briefing

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10/12 We moved quickly to challenge Sadiq Khan's plans to use London's Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) to expand Police #surveillance powers via Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology (ANPR). #DigitalRights

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/03/sadiq-khan-faces-legal-challenge-over-traffic-camera-surveillance

Sadiq Khan faces legal challenge over traffic camera surveillance

Mayor’s decision to give police access to more data described as ‘gargantuan increase of surveillance in London’

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11/12 We challenged the government on the #OnlineSafetyBill around risks to encryption and freedom of expression online. We highlighted the ‘spy clause’ in a Parliamentary briefing entitled 'Who is checking on your chats in private online spaces'. #DigitalRights #Privact #Surveillance #freespeech

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/whos-checking-on-your-chats-in-private-online-spaces/

Who’s checking on your chats in private online spaces?

A policy brief on the inclusion of private communications in scope of the Online Safety Bill and the impact on end-to-end encryption Chat monitoring of private messaging services has sneaked into the Online Safety Bill with very little public debate or Parliamentary Scrutiny.

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12/12 Our work to protect digital rights continues in 2023. Sign up to our newsletter to find out more about the fight for #privacy and #freedomofexpression online.

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