The Prime Minister’s new ‘Brexit Freedoms’ Bill means less democracy, less freedoms, and less control. 

EMBARGO: Immediate Responding to Government’s announcement on pledging to bring forward a new ‘Brexit Freedoms’ Bill, Jim Killock, the Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, said:  “We were told Brexit meant ‘taking back control’, the Prime...

How GDPR stops discrimination and protects equalities

Workers and Trade Unions Government plans would grant greater freedom for employers to collect and use personal data, providing those with unprecedented insight on their workers’ buying habits, social relationships, creditworthiness, lifestyle,...

How the Online Safety Bill lets politicians define free speech

The Joint Pre-Legislative Scrutiny committee has opened its work into the draft Online Safety Bill.

Papers please: nationality checks for the British internet?

Over the course of the debate on how to tackle online harms, we’ve drawn attention to the risks to digital and human rights which can arise when technical solutionism meets poorly drafted legislation.

Stand Up for Privacy

Yesterday, on June 16, the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform published a report outlining their vision to “refresh the UK’s approach to regulation now that we have left the EU”.