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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 https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-state-censorship-online-speech

This Government wants to BREAK end-to-end encryption, so that the contents of the *private* messages you share with your friends, family, colleagues, and communities can be read by service providers. #OnlineSafetyBill #E2EE

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/encryption-in-the-online-safety-bill/

Today's Essential Read authored by our very own Jim Killock & Heather Burns.

"Racists must be prosecuted, not moderated"

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/racists-must-be-prosecuted-not-moderated/

⚡ ACCESS DENIED: YOUR INTERNET ⚡

The UK Govt's #onlinesafetybill will *BAN* services like as #mastodon if they refuse to obey the UK Govt's appointed Speech Regulator's orders.

Filterig, automated censorship, age verification and fees are among the rules #mastodon may need to follow, or face a ban.

Sign our pledge to Stop State Censorship

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-state-censorship-online-speech

🚨 ⚠️ STOP THE GLOBAL PRIVACY RACE TO THE BOTTOM 🚨 ⚠️

Stop this Government from turning the UK into a global data laundering hub and trampling all over our privacy rights.

👉 Watch this video + Take action now ➡️ http://openrightsgroup.org/take-action

🚨 ⚡ ⚠️ ACCESS DENIED 🚨 ⚡ ⚠️

This Government's Online Safety Bill includes a range of powers and abilities to remove not just content, but an entire service from the British internet. #OnlineSafetyBill
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/access-denied-service-blocking-in-the-online-safety-bill/

⚠️ The global privacy race to the bottom⚠️

We were told #Brexit meant taking back control. We must not lose control of our #privacy.

Trade deals must not come at the expense of our personal privacy and liberties.

We have to ACT NOW: digitaltrade.openrightsgroup.org/take-action

Why does the recent EU-UK data deal (known as the adequacy decision) worries human rights advocates on both sides of the channel? Read this superb blog by
Mariano Delli Santi to find out why.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/fear-and-loathing-in-the-uk-adequacy-decision/

We're really proud of our Immigration, Data & Technology program, which includes working with migrants rights organisations on privacy, data & digital rights among other issues. Check out our monthly newsletter curated by our very own Sahdya Darr.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/newsletter-immigration-data-and-technology-3/

STOP THE GLOBAL PRIVACY RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Stop this Government from turning the UK into a global data laundering hub and trampling all over our privacy rights.

WATCH: https://youtu.be/GQJVChsk0vM

Stand up for Privacy:

Proposals commissioned by the UK Government to gut privacy and #GDPR are dangerous and harmful.

These are a taste of what to expect to be official policy in the next few months.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/stand-up-for-privacy/

BREAKING: ORG joins over 30 UK and global organisations, across digital and human rights, in calling for MPs to safeguard end-to-end encryption from legislative threats. Read our blog and the open letter.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/mps-encryption-keeps-your-constituents-safe/

📣 NEW: TODAY's essential reading on #onlinesafetybill authored by our very own Heather Burns and Sahdya Darr.

Read this blog if you want to know how an increasingly authoritarian Government is planning to silence conversations they don’t want you to hear. Legal migration is at the top of their list.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/is-government-preparing-to-censor-discussions-about-migration/

Are you annoyed by #CookieBanners?

Read our blog on how they are intentionally designed to breach our fundamental rights to privacy. Online content and services should be accessible for all - without manipulation or spying on us.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/adtech-lets-get-rid-of-cookie-banners/

🚨🚨🚨ACTION ALERT🚨🚨🚨

On this #GDPR Day, we’ve joined forces with partners across Europe to stop illegal online ads from violating our privacy rights.

Watch this video now and use our tool to tell your MEPs to #StopStalkerAds 👉 https://youtu.be/7-ezf6LMvgU

As the next class of MSPs look to the future, the time to voice your concerns about digital rights in Scotland is now. TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell your MSPs Digital Rights are a priority!
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-msps-digital-rights-are-priority

In this blog Heather Burns explores some of the reasons why demands for imposing criminal liability onto senior managers and directors, in the context of the Online Safety Bill, constitute a series of threats to your Right to Freedom of Expression.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-abuse-why-management-liability-isnt-the-answer/

🚨🚨🚨 DIGITAL POLICE STATE 🚔🚔🚔

This Government is attempting to create a Digital Police State. Priti Patel and Michael Gove⁩ are rumoured to be its architects. Don’t let them do that.

You only have 24 hours. TAKE ACTION NOW

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/dont-let-the-government-create-a-digital-police-state/

Here's another edition of our Immigration, Data, and Technology newsletter curated by our very own Sahdya Darr.

Have a read and sign up.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/newsletter-immigration-data-and-technology/