A new report by digital campaigners, Open Rights Group urges Meta to amend its business model to comply with data protection law. The report outlines alternative business models that will not force ...

Since its first advertising product launched in 2004, Meta has relied on revenue from advertising to support its business. In 2024, 98% of Meta’s $165bn of revenue came from advertising. From that ...

Peter Sommer combines academic and public policy work with commercial cyber security consultancy, with a strong bias towards legal issues. His first degree is in law, from Oxford University. He has ...

Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s white paper Restoring Control over the Immigration System. The white paper calls the shambolic and flawed eVisa scheme a ‘success’ and says that it ...

Open Rights Group believes that Ofcom should root its regulation, and the UK Parliament should base its law, in human rights law, taking advantage of prior work on content moderation such as: the 2013 ...

Q1. Can you provide examples of where data subject rights are currently exercised by third parties on the instruction of, or in the interest of, the data subject? Article 80(1) of the UK GDPR allows ...

A new report by digital campaigners, the Open Rights Group, outlines how the Online Safety Act favours big tech, and harms small websites and the general public. How to fix the Online Safety Act: A ...

The right to an effective remedy constitutes a core element of data protection: most individuals will not pursue cases before a court because of the lengthy, time-consuming and costly nature of ...

The Online Safety Act 2023 is a complex piece of legislation that places extensive duties on Internet service providers regarding content moderation, transparency reporting, and age verification. It ...

On May 12, the Data (Use and Access) Bill, also known as the UK data protection reform, came back to the House of Lords for what was supposed to be its final stage. However, this story is not about ...

Open Rights Group is calling for a change to the law to protect the privacy and safety of survivors of modern slavery and gender-based violence. Data protection violations can have a devastating ...

When the “immigration exemption” became law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, it threatened the data rights of all UK residents, including British citizens. Open Rights Group and the3million ...