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Open Rights Group

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Type: Organization

Name: Open Rights Group

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

ORGCon 2013 - the UK's only digital rights conference, this year with John Perry Barlow and Tim Wu!

Jim from the Open Rights Group writes in with the announcement for this year's ORGCon, a brilliant UK digital rights event: Legends of digital rights, Tim Wu and John Perry Barlow, will be leading Open Rights Group's 3rd national conference on June ... [Published Boing Boing - May 20 2013]

Entities: John Perry Barlow, Tim Wu, Open Rights Group, Free Speech

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

Consent should be needed for anonymised data sharing to be lawful, say European campaigners

Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 16/05/2013 12:32Businesses should have to ask for individuals' consent before sharing anonymised personal data with third parties, digital rights campaigners have said.The Open Rights Group (ORG) called for new ... [Published Goldstein Report - May 16 2013]

Entities: Open Rights Group, Anonymization, European Union, Data Protection, Personal Data

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Open Rights Group

EE denies personal data offered to police by partner

Phone network EE has denied any wrongdoing in a privacy brouhaha that sees another firm accused of trying to sell EE customer data to the Metropolitan Police.Despite officially having access only to anonymous data on EE customers, market-research company ... [Published CNET.co.uk - May 13 2013]

Entities: Ipsos MORI, Personal Data, Open Rights Group

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

UK Home Office

Open Rights Group calls for 'targeted and accountable' Snoopers' Charter alternative

The Open Rights Group has compiled a report in opposition to the government's so-called Snooper's Charter, arguing for a more "meaningful engagement about surveillance laws in the digital age".As proposed, the Communications Bill would have given the ... [Published Wired.co.uk - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Open Rights Group, Surveillance, Data Privacy, UK Home Office

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 2 reports

De Montfort University

Why do governments get Internet surveillance so wrong?

The UK Open Rights Group has just published " Why the Snoopers’ Charter is the wrong approach: A call for targeted and accountable investigatory powers ," a digital paper on why and how governments go terribly wrong with Internet surveillance proposals, ... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Surveillance, Open Rights Group, Richard Clayton, Duncan Campbell, De Montfort University

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Facebook Inc

Privacy Activists Doorstep Facebook Over EU Lobbying

Facebook,gets a visit from activists who say it has cripped proposed EU privacy rulesPrivacy activists called on Facebook’s London headquarters today, to deliver a report which say European regulations designed to protect privacy have been crippled by ... [Published TechWeekEurope UK - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Facebook Inc, European Union, Right To Be Forgotten, Personal Data

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Nick Clegg

UK government dumps controversial web snooping bill

The UK government has abandoned plans to introduce its controversial Communications Data Bill, better known as the snooper's charter, which would have given security services sweeping powers to monitor internet activity.Speaking on his weekly LBC radio ... [Published Techworld.com - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: UK Government, Nick Clegg, Open Rights Group

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 3 reports

Open Rights Group: Nick Clegg's snoopers' charter pledge must stick

Open Rights Group responds to Nick Clegg’s speech on the snooper’s charter saying ‘this is great news. We expect the coalition to stick to their promise’. ... [Published PoliticsHome - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Open Rights Group, Nick Clegg, Coalition

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

On whose side are Open Rights with their campaign to "protect" the EU Data Protection Regulation?

I have long had strong views on the need for effective Data Protection but I have just received a e-mail via ISOC UK soliciting my support for tomorrow's "Press Stunt" by the Open Rights Group to "protect" the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation ... [Published Security Bloggers Network - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Open Rights Group, Data Protection, European Union

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 6 reports

Cybersecurity academics: UK 'web snooping' bill is naive and dangerous

A group of ten academics has penned a letter to David Cameron warning that the controversial Communications Data Bill is "naïve and technically dangerous". The letter comes the same week privacy groups have banded together to accuse the UK's major ... [Published Wired.co.uk - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: UK Home Office, Theresa May, Cyber Security

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 3 reports

Privacy groups write to ISPs over 'Snoopers Charter'

Privacy groups the Open Rights Group, Privacy International and Big Brother Watch have written to internet service providers (ISPs), demanding that they stand up for their customers against the government's 'Snoopers' Charter'. ... [Published Latest articles from SC Magazine UK News - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Open Rights Group, Privacy International, Big Brother

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 2 reports

Freedom groups press ISPs on snoopers’ charter

THREE CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS have published an open letter to the UK's big ISPs that asks them to "stand up for their customers" in the face of the snoopers' charter.The snoopers' charter, or Communications Data Bill, concerns the organisations because ... [Published TheInquirer.net - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: TalkTalk Telecom Group plc, UK Home Office, Zen Internet, Open Rights Group

Quotes

"In particular, we can make the following assurances: Ipsos Mori only receives anonymised data without any personally identifiable information on an individual customer. We do not have access to any names, personal address information, nor postcodes or phone numbers. We can see the volume of people who have visited a website domain, but we cannot see the detail of individual visits, nor what information is entered on that domain. We only ever report on aggregated groups of 50 or more customers. We will never release any data that in any way allows an individual to be identified" it added

Consent should be needed for anonymised data sharing to be lawful, say campaigners [Published Out-Law.com - May 15 2013]

"The question of resale of anonymised data is very serious," says the OpenOpen Rights Group. "Consent should be required to reuse your data, including consent to anonymisation. This incident reaffirms why we need the strong protections in the new Data Protection Regulation."

EE denies personal data offered to police by partner [Published CNET.co.uk - May 13 2013]

"However, we have not removed the underlying assumption that recording information about everyone's phone and internet communications is necessary to combat terrorism."

Queen's Speech reveals government's renewed plans for mobile and internet monitoring [Published V3.co.uk - May 08 2013]

"The 'snoopers charter' isn't going to happen - the idea that there would be a record kept of all your online activity," he said. ". Of course we need to support police, they have significant powers already which I support them in using. This idea of a 'snoopers charter' - I think it isn't workable or proportionate. It isn't going to happen."

Snoopers’ Charter limps back into the Queen’s Speech [Published TheInquirer.net - May 08 2013]

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Open Rights Group calls for 'targeted and accou... [Published Wired.co.uk - Apr 30 2013]
The "snooper's charter" showed just what the Go... [Published New Statesman - Apr 30 2013]
Why do governments get Internet surveillance so... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 29 2013]
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Open Rights Group: Launch of our Digital Survei... [Published PoliticsHome - Apr 29 2013]
Snooper's Charter is dead! (for now) [Published Boing Boing - Apr 26 2013]
Privacy Activists Doorstep Facebook Over EU Lob... [Published TechWeekEurope UK - Apr 25 2013]
UK government dumps controversial web snooping ... [Published Techworld.com - Apr 25 2013]
Snoopers’ charter killed by Lib Dems [Published TheInquirer.net - Apr 25 2013]
Nick Clegg ‘Kills Off Snooper’s Charter’ [Published TechWeekEurope UK - Apr 25 2013]
Open Rights Group: Nick Clegg's snoopers' chart... [Published PoliticsHome - Apr 25 2013]
'It's not going to happen' Nick Clegg kills con... [Published Daily Express - Apr 25 2013]
UPDATE Deputy PM Nick Clegg Hints UK ISP Intern... [Published ISPreview - Apr 25 2013]
Nick Clegg kills coalition government’s snooper... [Published Metro.co.uk - Apr 25 2013]
EU data regulation changes would "strip citizen... [Published PC Pro - Apr 25 2013]
UK Home Office commissions a super villain-catc... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 24 2013]
On whose side are Open Rights with their campai... [Published Security Bloggers Network - Apr 24 2013]
Cybersecurity academics: UK 'web snooping' bill... [Published Wired.co.uk - Apr 23 2013]

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ORGCon 2013 - the UK's only digital rights conf... [Published Boing Boing - May 20 2013] Jim from the Open Rights Group writes in with the announcement for this year's ORGCon, a brilliant UK digital rights event: Legends of digital rights, Tim Wu and John Perry Barlow, will be leading Open Rights Group's 3rd national conference on June ...
Traceability in the Queen’s Speech [Published Light Blue Touchpaper - May 08 2013] The Queen’s speech at today’s state opening of Parliament includes the prediction : “In relation to the problem of matching Internet protocol addresses, my Government will bring forward proposals to enable the protection of the public and the investigation ...
Digital Surveillance Report Exposes Short-Sight... [Published Techdirt - May 02 2013] If you would believe the UK government, there are two types of people. In the one category, you have law abiding citizens whose every movement, communication and social network activity must be monitored and digitally analyzed to keep them at bay, for ...
Why do governments get Internet surveillance so... [Published Boing Boing - Apr 29 2013] The UK Open Rights Group has just published " Why the Snoopers’ Charter is the wrong approach: A call for targeted and accountable investigatory powers ," a digital paper on why and how governments go terribly wrong with Internet surveillance proposals, ...
Snooper's Charter is dead! (for now) [Published Boing Boing - Apr 26 2013] div class="video-container"> Aw, yeah! The UK Communications Data Bill -- AKA the "Snooper's Charter," a sweeping, totalitarian universal Internet surveillance bill that the Conservative government had sworn to pass -- is dead! Yesterday, Nick Clegg, ...