⏰ NEXT WEEK ⏰ We're going beyond the screen and hosting a meet up IRL. Whether you're a supporter or just curious, everyone is welcome to pop down. Hear from our team, mingle and join the movement! 🗓️ 10 Nov, 6:30-9pm 📍 Newspeak House, LDN Sign up ➡️

Human rights underpin our everyday lives, often in invisible ways but always there when you need them. Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone. ORG joined @libertyhq and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊ https://t.co/s6rjYga6rP

Relaxing cookie consent rules is unlikely to leverage change. There must be: ⚫ More effective and dissuasive action by the ICO to remove illegal ads. ⚫ Enforce data protection. ⚫ Protect law-abiding players from the unfair competition of adtech companies who violate privacy.

Welcome to the Dark video is live for Halloween! Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. Link in Bio ☝🏼

Cookie consent rules aren't the biggest barrier to privacy-preserving advertising tech being widely used. Ads without personal data are often blocked from being traded by intermediaries in the market. So deregulating instead of enforcement isn't the answer to intrusive tracking.

Trying to nudge the adtech industry into more privacy-preserving models of online tracking by cutting our need to consent is flawed. The ICO is terrible at enforcing consent rules for adtech providers that run behavioural tracking as it stands. So there's a carrot with no stick.

Baked into cookies are what we do on any given site. Trackers make guesses about who we are and what we're interested in. These behavioural profiles get auctioned off to advertisers in real time. And so ads for what you've just looked at start to haunt you through the Internet.

Cookies feed the beast of targeted advertising. The ICO wants the industry to use less less-invasive forms of tracking by exempting them from cookie consent rules. But will this stop the privacy-be-damned trade in our data? Our roundtable had its say ⬇️ https://t.co/0BkzPfOfjH

Reimagining Digital ID 💭 ORG's @sarahalsherif is on the panel to discuss how the introduction of Digital ID must learn from research in Global Majority contexts and consider the implications for migrants and refugees. 🗓️ 8 November Register now ⬇️ https://t.co/A4BESSiwt1

Meta's new subscription service monetises our data rights 🏧 Users must consent to the use of their personal data for targeted advertising, or cough up the dosh to opt out. Meta must offer a tracking free version to implement this in a lawful way. https://t.co/WR8c9NVS9I

ORG is hiring 🚀 We're looking for an expert Consultant to develop a policy on the use of AI in the immigration/asylum system in the UK and set out the protections needed to respect migrants’ rights. Get in touch by Sunday 9 November. Find out more ⬇️

Hey, London! Why not log off for the night and meet in person? Come on down to get the latest on our campaigns from the Online Safety Act to Digital IDs and more. Everyone is welcome! 🗓️ 10 November 🕡 6.30–9pm 📍 Newspeak House, E2 7DG Sign up now ⬇️ https://t.co/8nhzhjsTsM

We've had reports of people being unable to access their eVisa when boarding a flight to the UK. The airline made them buy an ETA for visitors to the UK, despite having the right to live here. If this has happened to you, we'd love to hear from you: info@openrightsgroup.org

Migrants, have you been able to access your eVisa since the Amazon Web Services outage? If you have had problems, please do let us know in the comments or by emailing info@openrightsgroup.org

Message scanning powers are sleeping on the statute book. They must never get used. The government has already tried to make Apple put a backdoor in its encrypted services. It's clear they want to recklessly dismantle our cybersecurity protections. We must #PracticeSafeText.

“You don’t need to learn to code to ship an app.” — Riley Brown AI can turn ideas into working apps, straight from your phone. I sat with Riley Brown, Co-founder of Vibe Code, and we built a voice-notes app live on iPhone Here’s what we did: Generated the UI with prompts

Powers in the Online Safety Act to introduce message scanning tech is far from an online safety measure. It's a gift to predators. Forcing a backdoor into encrypted systems so everything we send can be scanned makes us vulnerable to anybody who wants to exploit that weakness.

Encryption scrambles what we send on messaging apps. Only the person you’re talking to can make sense of it – your chats, pics and deets for their eyes only. This is how we protect kids, parents and domestic abuse victims from those who want to use your private life against you.

Practice Safe Text for Global Encryption Day 🔒 Messaging apps we use to chat, share and plan shield us from scams, stalking and sextortion. But the UK Online Safety Act contains a time bomb that lets the government break encryption. Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/0bOCqQlwNi

Data is used to target and surveil migrants. That's why we've put together a toolkit with @PositiveActionH so you can know your rights ✊ Find out what organisations know about you, how to correct errors and make a complaint. Download now ⬇️ https://t.co/MKDi8a2Jqp

Livestreaming and social media are essential for activism. From the Hong Kong protests to Black Lives Matter, social media has provided real-time coverage to challenge official narratives and inform public debate. Protest crackdowns must not be mirrored in content takedowns.

Political content could also get digitally kettled under Ofcom's proposals: 🔴 Deprioritise posts flagged as potentially 'illegal' from algorithmic feeds until reviewed. 🔴 New police powers to restrict the sharing of content during a 'crisis' that could be misused on protests.