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ALT Since taking over X, Musk has disempowered users, amped up content that mirrors his views, and used it as a political weapon. The Grok scandal is further evidence of how users have been made unsafe. Despite Musk’s protestations about state censorship in the UK, X is a serious threat to freedom of expression and democracy around the world. We encourage you to engage with Open Rights Group on other platforms, particularly Mastodon, Bluesky and Reddit which offer a better user experience.
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ORG and @privacyint argued at #CJEU that blanket retention is not compatible with the right to privacy—and we won!
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ICO confirms @Conservatives ILLEGALLY racially profiled 10 million people, at @commonsdcms hearing.
But @ICOnews still hasn't explained what else the parties are doing that has broke the law. That's why ORG supporters made an official complaint to ensure the ICO spell this out.
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Today is #SaferInternetDay
@pritipatel has spent £500K+ of taxpayers money to mislead the public on #InternetSafety.
If Govt weakens #encryption, it'll only help predators, criminals, blackmailers & scammers.
#Noplacetohide #Onlinesafetybill
👉 WATCH & SHARE OUR video now.
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📣 This excellent blog by our very own @ds_m4riano is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand Government proposal for a new UK data protection regime.
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🚨⚠️⚡ Criminals LOVE Priti Patel’s plan to break #Encryption!
We've released a new video in response to Government's £500K PR blitz. If the government weakens encryption, it'll only help predators, criminals, blackmailers & scammers.
Please WATCH & SHARE our new video now!
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🚨⚡🕵️When Priti Patel joins your family chat 👀
The #onlinesafetybill will allow the Government to have your *private* messages on @WhatsApp, @signalapp, @telegram & @Facebook Messenger SCANNED & CENSORED.
👉 Sign our pledge to Stop State Censorship: action.openrightsgroup.org/s…
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The UK is a useful idiot for authoritarian regimes.
The Online Safety Bill is set to puncture the security of messaging apps to enable mass surveillance. It’ll give permission for it to be done in other countries.
World-leading stuff 🇬🇧
📽️ @Channel4News @mer__edith
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Wow, the chutzpah! @MattHancock is not interested in the views of his legal team. He doesn’t think a Data Protection Impact Assessment for the programme was needed. Others for bits of it are fine, apparently.
You ok with that @ICOnews?
Thank you @CarolineLucas for asking this!
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🚨Twitter Passports are dangerous and impractical 🚨
Banning anonymity online will not solve the issue of abuse and will actually make people
less safe. THREAD (1/9)🧵
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All Hail Robocopyright – *brilliant* @itsDanBull hits back at #Article13 (now 17) piped.video/watch?v=VvpWQkby… Take action here: action.openrightsgroup.org/o… #Robocopyright
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🚨⚡🕵️♂️ SCREENED: Your *private* messages 🚨⚡🕵️♂️
The upcoming #onlinesafetybill will allow the Government to have your *private* messages on WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and Messenger SCANNED and CENSORED.
👉 Sign our pledge to Stop State Censorship action.openrightsgroup.org/s…
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🚨⚡ ACCESS DENIED: YOUR INTERNET 🚨⚡
This Govt's #onlinesafetybill will *BAN* websites, apps or services such as Wikipedia, Reddit & Tumblr for refusing to obey the Govt's appointed Speech Regulator's orders.
Sign our pledge to Stop State Censorship 👉 action.openrightsgroup.org/s…
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🚨🚨🚨 The Government’s #OnlineSafetyBill is an Orwellian Censor’s Charter and will make the internet
❌ LESS FREE
❌ LESS SAFE
❌ LESS SECURE
WATCH & SHARE this video NOW 👇
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Fancy authoritarianism through the back door? Well, the Online Safety Bill does just that. It gives Ofcom the power to require companies to scan our messages.
So we hit the streets of London with a message to Parliament: Don't Scan Me!
Join our campaign: action.openrightsgroup.org/d…
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🚨The mask has finally come off🎭
What @OliverDowden really means is that he wants to use #Brexit to take away our #privacy & #datarights.
We were told #Brexit meant taking back control.
But gutting of our hard won #dataprotection laws means we'll lose control of our privacy.
Now that we've left the EU we can seize the opportunity to develop a world-leading data regime that will deliver for people across the UK.
Forging new global data partnerships and designing our own common sense data laws are all part of our plan.
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🚨 Join the campaign to Stop Data Discrimination 🚨
The Government is planning to gut basic privacy laws that prevent discrimination. From workers & children to NHS patients & migrants, GDPR protects us all.
👉 Watch this video and take action now: action.openrightsgroup.org/s…
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⚠️ The Online Safety Bill returns to the @UKHouseofLords today for 3rd reading.
The spy clause will force secure services to add a backdoor to scan our private messages.
@mer__edith explains the serious threat to encryption, leaving the UK exposed to hostile actors.
#e2ee
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⚠️ The Online Safety Bill has been passed in Parliament.
The threats it poses to our right to privacy and freedom of expression will soon become law.
It'll make us less secure, including the children and young people that the law is supposed to protect. openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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“Illegal racial abuse sent to England’s footballers must be prosecuted under existing laws. Govt cannot abdicate its responsibility by making this the social media platforms’ problem. Social media sites do not operate courts and prisons." - @WebDevLaw
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🚨🚨🚨Watch the video + Take Action🚨🚨🚨
On this #GDPR day, we’ve joined forces with partners across Europe to stop illegal online ad systems from violating our privacy rights.
Watch the video now & use our tool to tell your MEPs to #StopStalkerAds 👉 stopstalkerads.org
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We've released a new video in response to Government's £500K PR blitz. If the government weakens encryption, it'll only help predators, criminals, blackmailers & scammers.
🚨⚠️⚡ Criminals LOVE Priti Patel’s plan to break #Encryption!
We've released a new video in response to Government's £500K PR blitz. If the government weakens encryption, it'll only help predators, criminals, blackmailers & scammers.
Please WATCH & SHARE our new video now!
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Thank you to @DavidDavisMP and @CarolineLucas for supporting an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would seek to protect the end-to-end encrypted services. Many parents rely on these apps to safely and securely share family pictures. #onlinesafetybill
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🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨
👉The online ad industry is stealing our most intimate personal data.
👉 The ICO refuses to take action against the widespread & systemic abuses of our privacy rights.
👉We've taken the ICO to court to ensure that they do their job!
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The #londonattacks—Internet clampdowns would be a poor, very political response; and not fit for purpose openrightsgroup.org/blog/201…
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🚨⚠️Government's proposed Data Protection changes mean:
❌Attack on Equality
❌Auto Firings & Racist Hirings
❌Health Records Sold
❌Unfair Exam Grades
❌Mothers Targeted & Children Exploited
❌Racial Profiling
👉🏽 Join us now to Stop Data Discrimination: action.openrightsgroup.org/s…
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⚡️⚡️⚡️ A cross-party group of MPs have written to @OliverDowden Secretary of State for @DCMS warning the Government about ‘unduly influencing’ the appointment of the next @ICOnews Commissioner.
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Mandatory online ID verification could threaten some in the LGBTQ community among others. ORG’s @WebDevLaw explains where anonymity currently stands in the political context, what we can do to safeguard it, and what you can do to help. #SaveAnonymity
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PLS SHARE!
⚠️The new #OnlineSafetyBill will make people less safe⚠️
▶️ Helping criminals and dictators by undermining encryption and safe comms
▶️ Pushing automated censorship of vital info
▶️ Punishing victims of abuse and bullying who use anonymity to protect themselves
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HUGE WIN today for #freespeech, #censorship and #copyright! The disastrous #Article13 is NOT getting fast tracked! This controversial law will now face far wider debate. MASSIVE THANK YOU and CONGRATS to everyone who contacted their MEPs!!!
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The immigration exception under the Data Protection Act 2018 is UNLAWFUL. The High Court agreed that it's incompatible with #GDPR.
A victory for migrants’ data rights in our second challenge with @the3million, represented by @LeighDay_Law. openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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BREAKING: privacy complaint shows that the online ad industry has known all along that profiling plus massive data sharing does not comply with data protection laws: fixad.tech/february2019/ #fixadtech
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Civil Society hits out at Nadine Dorries over ‘rigged’ consultation!
More than 30 civil society organisations have gone public with their concerns over what they believe may be an unlawful consultation process.
Press release👇🏽
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🚨UK-US trade deal threatens our privacy🚨
The US is a data wild west.
Our privacy must not become a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.
Watch this video to find out why we have to stop this data power grab. Our rights and liberties are at risk ⬇️
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Join an outstanding panel of experts on Friday to discuss the success or failure of Covid apps in #Scotland, #NorthernIreland, #Ireland, #England & #Wales.
@OlgaCronin @PatrickCorrigan @lilianedwards @mattr3
#COVID19 #NHSCOVID19app
Register Now⬇️
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ORG’s @ds_m4riano says @NadineDorries Data proposals are "irresponsible … they risk leading to a massive and expensive rupture with the EU, making data transfers costly for UK businesses, costing jobs during an economic downturn". #gdpr
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🚨🚨🚨 Our response to government's announcement on Data Reform Bill by @ds_m4riano 👇🏽
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The UK #GDPR affords important protections to women, workers, patients, migrants, ethnic minorities, LGBT communities & everyone.
The Data Reform Bill will endanger all this.
@DCMS has refused to engage with the civil society on this bill. forbes.com/sites/emmawoollac…
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BREAKING: The government's attempt hold the Apple encryption case entirely in secret has been REJECTED.
ORG, @BigBrotherWatch and @IndexCensorship made a submission to the court arguing for open justice.
In a win for privacy rights, the court agrees.
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‘An unprecedented threat’
@WhatsApp, @session_app, @signalapp, @element_hq, @ThreemaApp, @Viber and @wire join forces to oppose the attack on encryption in the Online Safety Bill.
They call on the government to think again. #DontScanMe #StopTheSpyClause
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The censorship of @migrants_rights by @instagram is wrong, unjustified, and shameful.
Migrants Rights Network is a charity that supports migrants in the UK and this is impacting their ability to connect with their community.
@Meta @nickclegg You must reverse this ASAP.
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📣 The government has delayed further debate on the #OnlineSafetyBill until the Autumn. The delay is an opportunity for Parliament to re-think the consequences for #freespeech and #privacy.
Read our latest blog by @Iptegrity 👇
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🕵️♂️ Carpe DM! The phone inspector will see you now.
With powers to scan everyone's private messages, the Online Safety Bill will create a snooper's paradise.
But there's still time to stop the spy clause. Take action today ⤵️
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MEPs are voting TOMORROW on the EU #CopyrightDirective. Today’s our last chance to urge them to #DeleteArt13’s robo-filters that muzzle free speech. #SaveYourInternet Contact them here:
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Dear @GavinWilliamson
Nobody is suggesting that Test and Trace stop — we are asking that you act to remove risks, deliver public trust and avoid undermining your public health objectives.
Please act now to get data security and privacy right.
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Now that the snooper’s charter has been passed, how can I protect myself? Should I use a #VPN? #IPBill
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We did it! Our challenge to the “Immigration Exemption” with @The3Million is funded—thank you everyone who donated! crowdjustice.com/case/immigr… #gdpr #dataprotection
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🎉🎊 HUGE VICTORY ✊
Immigration Exemption judged unlawful, excessive, wrong by Court of Appeal.
This 3year legal case against the @ukhomeoffice succeeded because of all those who generously supported us, @the3million and our lawyers @LeighDay_Law.
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We repeatedly warned the Government to take #Privacy and #dataprotection seriously.
This is now both a privacy and a public health disaster, and the Government bears responsibility for the public health consequences.
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⚠️The Government is using the Online Harms Bill to weaken security for everyone⚠️
A ban on encryption "would create a degree of surveillance and government intrusion that simply should not be tolerated in a democratic society".
#encryption #surveillance
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For the limited time of the rest of your life, the State Pension comes privacy-free!
So relax safe in the knowledge that the government can spy on your bank account.
Say yes to welfare surveillance!
Or don’t. It makes no difference.
🤫 👉 action.openrightsgroup.org/h…
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Predictive policing is UNJUST.
It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.
With 16 other civil society groups, we say:
BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime. #SafetyNotSurveillance
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ALT Open Letter to the Home Secretary: Protect people's rights and safeguard against the harms of AI systems in policing. 17 civil society groups call for #SafetyNotSurveillance
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We're taking the ICO to court over their failure to stop widespread and systemic abuses of our privacy rights by the AdTech industry.
Help us protect your data from illegal ads ⬇️
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.@DHSCgovuk You’ve got to read the letter your lawyers sent us:
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If #Article13 passes it will change the way that the Internet works, from free and creative sharing, to one where anything can be instantly removed, by computers. #CensorshipMachine action.openrightsgroup.org/z…
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Encrypted chat is protecting #Ukrainians and #Russians from #Putin.
Help us stop the UK Government from banning or limiting encrypted chat in the #OnlineSafetyBill: openrightsgroup.org/campaign…
#Ukraine #Russia #Encryption #Noplacetohide
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If you work or have worked in @UKParliament and can let us know about similar insecure, unlawful practices in MPs private offices, please email us so we can complain to the Parliamentary authorities. openrightsgroup.org/contact
My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. Including interns on exchange programmes. For the officer on @BBCNews just now to claim that the computer on Greens desk was accessed and therefore it was Green is utterly preposterous !!
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Don't let Trump get his hands on our data—Trump can use it for Muslim bans, torture, rendition—sign now openrightsgroup.org/campaign… #IPAct
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Is this the first casualty of the Online Safety Act? An online cycling community web forum with over 60K users shutting down - as they say dealing with the compliance requirements of the act is too much - lfgss.com/conversations/4014… #OSA @Ofcom
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🚨 ⚠❗⚡ URGENT: HELP us STOP Sadiq Khan’s & Met Police’s Orwellian surveillance network.
ORG & @sianberry have teamed up to stop @sadiqkhan’s mass surveillance of millions of Londoners using road traffic cameras by @metpoliceuk.
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Hey @Facebook 👋 If introducing very basic user's privacy features are reducing your profit and hurting your business, then the problem is with your business model.
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The #AISafetySummit is a closed-door event.
Over 100 groups and individuals have signed the #AISummitOpenLetter convened by ORG, @ConnectedByData and @The_TUC.
We warn that the people most affected by AI are marginalised in favour of vested interests. openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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"Ignorance combined with arrogance is a dangerous mix."
The government is pursuing a legislative agenda that'll leave people the UK without secure messaging services.
Powers to scan everyone's private messages must be removed from the Online Safety Bill. bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66…
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The Online Safety Bill contains a spy clause. Messaging services could be made to scan what you send privately on behalf of the government. It's anything but safe.
Join our campaign to tell the government: Don’t Scan Me. #StopTheSpyClause
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🚨 WE WON AGAIN 🚨
The Court of Appeal has confirmed the Immigration Exception is UNLAWFUL in the case brought by ORG and @the3million to defend migrants' access to their data.
@ukhomeoffice can't sidestep Parliament when using data to profile migrants. openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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First, a massive amount of online abuse comes not from anonymous accounts but from those who are happy to spout hate in their own name. 99% of Twitter accounts suspended for racism during Euro 2020 were NOT anonymous. (2/9)
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🚨BREAKING🚨
We've teamed up with @Foxglovelegal to challenge the transfers of refugees' data to the Rwandan Government 👇🏽
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🚨TAKE ACTION NOW 🚨
This Government (@pritipatel and @michaelgove in particular) are attempting to create a digital Police State 🚔🕵️♂️
Don’t let them do that. TAKE ACTION NOW ⬇️
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The UK’s role in stopping #Article13 is absolutely critical. We’ve got enough UK MEPs to tip the vote and change history. Let’s go out with a bang. #censorship #censorshipmachines #saveyourinternet
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UK users are cut adrift from current events by the Online Safety Act.
Platforms must moderate content that’s ‘harmful’.
A term that bursts the banks of porn to submerge news, advice and debate… it’s online censorship.
Tell your MP to FIX it ⬇️
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The @ukhomeoffice's fake migration website, created to collect data on refugees and feed them disinformation about their journey, targets vulnerable Afghanis who are seeking safety as we speak. ORG’s @sahdyadarr investigates.
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🚨 We’ve sent an open letter to @michelledonelan calling on the government to scrap the Data Protection and Data Information (DPDI) Bill.
Signed by 26 civil society groups, we warn that the Bill will seriously weaken data protection rights.
Find out more openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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We believe live facial recognition technology poses significant and unmitigable risks to our society and that it can't ever be safely deployed in public spaces or for mass surveillance purposes.
We've called on Parliament to halt and ban its use by police and private firms ⬇️
PI and 30 allies have issued a joint open letter, objecting to the use of live #facialrecognition tech by UK police forces. The @CollegeofPolice and @ukhomeoffice have bypassed Parliament on the proposed new national guidance:
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Why is the government flying in the face of tech and security experts?
The Online Safety Bill reveals the government’s hand: their priority isn’t safety, it’s surveillance.
Read the open letter from 68 experts about powers that breach encryption to scan our private messages ⤵️
68 (UK affiliated) researchers working on security and privacy have raised alarms about provisions in the UK #OnlineSafetyBill: "our concern is that surveillance technologies are deployed in the spirit of providing online safety."
Read our letter here: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenl…
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🚨🌡️Red Alert❌⛔ Government bonfire of data rights 🧨🔥
@NadineDorries' proposed Data Bill is a ‘Data Oligarchs Charter’.
This Bill will enshrine discrimination, bias & prejudice into UK law. #DataProtection #DataOligarchsCharter
Our response 👇
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🚨 Facial recognition is being rolled out at a disturbing pace across the UK with a dangerous disregard for our privacy and the impact on marginalised groups.
✊ Alongside nearly 100 rights groups and parliamentarians we say #StopFacialRecognition in the UK.
@BigBrotherWatch ⤵️
🚨BREAKING🚨
We've brought together 65 parliamentarians & 32 rights groups to call for an immediate stop to live facial recognition surveillance.
⚠️This dangerously authoritarian technology turns us all into walking ID cards in a police line up.
READ⤵️
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WhatsApp would rather be blocked from the UK than scan our private messages.
Will Cathcart, the Head of WhatsApp, has spoken out against moves to undermine encryption in the Online Safety Bill.
Join our campaign today #DontScanMe #StopTheSpyClause
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🚨⚠️⚡ The #OnlineSafetyBill and Government's crackdown on #anonymity will punish victims.
👉🏽 Anonymity protects the LGBTIQ+ community
👉🏽 Anonymity protects freedom of expression
👉🏽 Anonymity protects targets of bullying
#SaveAnonymity
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🚨ENDGAME FOR END-TO-END ENCRYPTION 🚨
@ukhomeoffice is actively exploring legal and technical mechanisms to compel @Facebook to circumvent end-to-end encrypted messaging.
Read our take on it ⬇️
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Police and other groups are holding millions of pieces of sensitive biometric data like DNA and fingerprints.
We have until 1 October to tell the Scottish Government that we need an independent commissioner to hold them to account.
Take action: action.openrightsgroup.org/b…
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The Online Safety Bill turns phones into a "mass surveillance device that phones home to tech corporations and governments and private entities" – @mer__edith
@signalapp would "100% walk rather than ever undermine the trust" in their service. #DontScanMe
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🚨We're very concerned about the fate of British blogger, coder & free speech activist Alaa Abd El Fattah who is on day 45 of a hunger strike in an Egyptian prison.
We've joined civil society groups incl. @EFF, @AccessNow & @SMEX in calling for his release. #FreeAlaa 👇🏽
Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is on day 45 of a hunger strike in protest of his mistreatment in an Egyptian prison. Civil society groups, including @AccessNow, @SMEX and EFF, are joining the call to ensure he is able to access his rights. #FreeAlaa
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The #SnoopersCharter is back with a new name and even more powers. Can you sign and share our petition against it?
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“Article 13 will create a ‘Robo-copyright’ regime, where machines zap anything they identify as breaking copyright rules
“While machines can spot Beyoncé songs, they can’t spot parodies, understand memes or make cultural judgements” said @jimkillock
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We’re a signatory of the #Covid pass pledge campaign.
#Wales will vote on vaccine passports *this Tuesday*!
TAKE ACTION 👇
🚨URGENT 🚨 Wales will vote on vaccine passports *this Tuesday*!
TAKE ACTION:
1.📨Use our email tool to tell Senedd Members to oppose discriminatory Covid IDs: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
2. 🪧 Join the demonstration! Tuesday 5th October at the Senedd, 2-7pm
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🔴 Over 80 international civil society organisations, academics and cyber-experts warn the UK government that the Online Safety Bill threatens the security and privacy of billions of people who use apps like WhatsApp and Signal.
Read the open letter here. openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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The government wants to scan your messages and photos before they get encrypted. If they can do it, so can others.
#OnlineSafetyBill #SafetyIsPrivacy #BlockTheBill
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Online anonymity played no role in the senseless killing of Sir David Amess and the government must not be allowed to use this issue as a way to distract from the larger societal problems arising from this tragedy. (9/9)
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Cybersecurity whistleblower Edward @Snowden is kicking off #ORGCon2019 today at 10am with a Q&A about current & future state of mass #surveillance. Thanks to @buyvpnservice for making this possible.
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We’re thrilled and grateful to be awarded with funding from @DuckDuckGo.
As surveillance technologies, privacy threats and AI gather steam, we’ll keep fighting for your digital rights.
#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights
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"Let me be blunt: encryption is either broken for everyone, or it works for everyone. There is no way to create a safe backdoor."
@mer__edith calls the #OnlineSafetyBill what it is, a menace to privacy and a way to impose mass surveillance via our messaging apps. A must read 👇
The UK's Online Safety Bill is poised to undermine encryption and create a regime of mass surveillance. Our president @mer__edith calls on the UK to reconsider this misguided Bill, and affirms that Signal will *never* undermine our privacy commitments:
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"Banning the ability for people to be anonymous online will put at risk many LGBTQ people, the victims of domestic violence, and the ability of campaigners to speak openly about difficult subjects." - Our Executive Director @jimkillock 👇
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For 10 years we’ve punched above our weight & stood up for your rights online. Can you help us do even more? openrightsgroup.org/join/10t…
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This week's vote on Article 13 will have major consequences for free expression online. We need as many constituents as possible to tell UK MEPs to oppose the #CensorshipMachine. Please write your MEPs today. #DeleteArt13 #SaveYourInternet action.openrightsgroup.org/z…
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⚠️ We’ve joined 180 organisations and experts to warn against #FacialRecognition surveillance.
Police, state authorities and companies MUST stop using this intrusive tech to surveil us in public spaces and at the border.
Read the global statement ⤵️
edri.org/our-work/global-civ…
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Say no to UK #censorship of thousands of legal adult websites! #DEBill
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The Data Bill could unleash unchecked automated decision-making in policing.
ORG has signed @BigBrotherWatch's letter to warn that removing safeguards could greatly expand "possibilities for bias, discrimination and lack of transparency".
Read more ➡️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press…
🚨New law could allow machine-made policing decisions to be made based on postcode data or even INFERRED EMOTIONS
We've brought together 30 rights groups & academics to warn against AI-powered automation in policing
"Labour’s copy-and-paste Conservative Data Bill will open the floodgates to robo-policing with fewer safeguards and less transparency.
The expansion of machine-made law enforcement decisions will only deepen the existing biases in the criminal justice system, putting marginalised groups at greater risk of opaque and discriminatory outcomes.
In the high stakes context of policing and criminal justice, which affect our fundamental rights, we must resist a Kafkaesque future of secret police decisions with no path to redress.
As the Bill rushes towards its final stages, MPs should oppose the weakening of vital safeguards protecting us from unchecked automated police decision-making."
- Jasleen Chaggar, Legal & Policy Officer
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🚨 BREAKING: The government has confirmed it is rowing back on its plans to scan private messages.
They've finally conceded that Ofcom won't use powers in the spy clause contained in the Online Safety Bill until it's 'technically feasible' to do so. #e2ee openrightsgroup.org/press-re…
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