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Protecting and promoting our digital rights in Cambridge, representing local chapter of @OpenRightsGroup

Cambridge, England
Joined July 2016
During the debate on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, @LaylaMoran raised our briefing. Powers to create new legitimate grounds for processing data and a new list of exemptions will water down the ability to protect ourselves and hold organisations accountable.
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Today the High Court found in our favour – the immigration exception is incompatible with GDPR. The judge states that "An obligation to merely "have regard" to a code or policy will not do." The government must comply with GDPR. Read the Full judgment: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov…
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Extremely important result for public accountabilty won by @iainoverton after huge amount of persistent hard work. These efforts are important to good governance.
*BREAKING* 1/ Today I got confirmation that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the UK Cabinet Office breached the Freedom of Information Act by failing to search former adviser Dominic Cummings’ private emails for information requested under the Act.
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Pre-crime profiling is happening alongside trends of conspiracy or joint enterprise that disproportionately affects Black people. This is criminalisation through the weaponisation of data and content as seen with the #Manchester10. Our Policy Manager @mssophiaakram explains more.
Last year, 10 young Black men were charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to GBH in Greater #MANCHESTER, the prosecution argued that they were part of a gang and linked them to the killing of a man they said was revenge for the death of their friend.🧵1/23
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"There isn’t a way to change it in just one part of the world... Ninety-eight per cent of our users are outside the UK. They do not want us to lower the security of the product." – @wcathcart The #OnlineSafetyBill puts users' privacy and security at risk. theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Yesterday we sent an urgent open letter to @michelledonelan with 25 other civil society groups. We called on the government to scrap the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and the attack on our data protection rights. Here's why. 1/7 openrightsgroup.org/blog/the…
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NEW PODCAST: I interview Mariano delli Santi @ds_m4riano from @OpenRightsGroup and he takes me through the main points of the threatening UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill richardsonsrubicon.com/data-… #GDPR #InfoSec #Privacy #HumanRights
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Client-side scanning is software that’ll go on messaging services if the #OnlineSafetyBill passes. It’ll check images and messages as they’re being uploaded against a database of what the government says is prohibited content. It’s a mass surveillance tool and undermines #e2ee
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We've joined @EFF and other organisations in signing a letter to UN Member States. The #UNCybercrimeTreaty increases the regulation of online content and access to data at a cost to international human rights of #freedomofexpression and #privacy. Read the letter in full here 👇
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👀 MPs are going to fix the Internet! If only they can find the button. The #OnlineSafetyBill is a mess. Tell your MP. action.openrightsgroup.org/w…
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Glad to see Apple drop its CSAM detection tool and instead acknowledge that protecting young people on the internet requires preserving their right to privacy. wired.com/story/apple-photo-…
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The official list of amendments to be debated in Committee next week is now up. #OnlineSafetyBill publications.parliament.uk/p…
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Be thankful for small mercies. We now have a definitive copy of the Bill including all the amendments made on Report. #OnlineSafetyBill publications.parliament.uk/p…
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The Govt have said they are removing #LegalButHarmful from the #OnlineSafetyBill. But there are still some significant challenges with the Bill. Read our newly commissioned legal opinion from @mryderkc: indexoncensorship.org/2022/1…
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The #OnlineSafetyBill "threatens 40 million users of WhatsApp and other messengers with constant surveillance of their private messages." This will disproportionality harm the groups the Bill claims to protect. @jimkillock calls for a complete rethink. theguardian.com/technology/2…
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