End-to-end encryption means that what you send on a messaging app appears as scrambled code while it’s in digital transit.

This introduces a backdoor that would make people vulnerable to hacking and abuses of their private information without any control over who gets access.

Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, working to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online. We fight for a fair digital ...

Christi Scarborough has been a supporter and member since ORG’s conception and in early 2018 Christi joined Open Rights Group’s board. Christi is a barrister at 42 Bedford Row where she has a broad ...

Prevent operates in the pre-crime space in which no offence has taken place. It is one where people are surveilled and viewed as suspicious. Prevent operates by extracting data and policing ...

Open Rights Group has responded to Apple’s announcement that they will no longer be able to offer Advanced Data Protection tools after UK security row. James Baker, Platform Power Programme Manager at ...

Safety Not Surveillance is led by Open Rights Group who plays a coordinating role in the coalition. The coalition includes organisations from across the movement ecosystem. Coalition partner ...

Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and free speech online. We fight for a fair digital ...

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 ...

The Directors of the company present their annual report for the year ending 31 October 2023. The Directors would like to thank our members, supporters, donors and grantors, who made our important ...

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