Digital rights in 2025 From age verification and digital ID to crime-predicting tech and attacks on migrants’ digital rights, ...

Open Rights Group has written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Liz Kendall MP calling for regulation of age assurance providers operating under the Online Safety Act.

Over 550,000 people have petitioned Parliament to repeal the Online Safety Act (OSA), making it one of the largest public expressions of concern about a UK digital law in recent history. A petition to ...

Justice Secretary, David Lammy, has announced plans to drastically reduce the use of jury trials in England and Wales.

New report finds that the Home Office’s digital-only immigration status system is leaving migrants in the UK stressed, confused and fearful. Digital status does not affect all migrants equally: those ...

The debate over digital ID systems has recently intensified in the UK, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer framing digital IDs as a mechanism to curb ‘illegal working’. What these debates often overlook ...

The 13 NGOs backing this briefing all oppose the Labour government’s plans for a mandatory digital ID, representing the vast numbers of people whose interests we represent. This position is informed ...

The ICO has just applied its public sector approach and issued a reprimand to the Post Office for their Horizon IT scandal data breach. In short, the Post Office unlawfully published the identities of ...

Public sector approach has failed to protect the public from bad data management, leaving government and public bodies on a weak footing to face growing data security threats Over 70 civil society ...

In the summer of 2025, the Home Affairs Committee launched an inquiry “to explore the potential benefits and risks of the use of government-issued digital ID”. This submission draws on interviews with ...