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Jun 28, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
The latest in government wishful thinking has dropped.

@SuellaBraverman takes to @Telegraph with claims about encryption that don't stack up.

There's a failure to grasp how the Online Safety Bill will harm privacy, despite repeated warnings from experts. openrightsgroup.org/press-releases… Experts have explained that any compromise of end-to-end encryption to detect CSAM can add 'backdoors'.

This will expose users to hackers accessing personal information and messages. It'll put the very people who the government claims to be protecting at risk. #OnlineSafetyBill
Mar 8, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
⚠️ The government has announced revisions to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. It appears that the revised version will be worse than the last, posing a greater threat to our privacy rights. Our response to today's announcement. #DPDIBill openrightsgroup.org/press-releases… "The UK has an opportunity to create a world-leading data protection law that puts people’s privacy rights at the fore, and aligns with our biggest markets. Instead, this appears to be an attempt to take power from citizens and give it to government" @burkeabigaile #DPDIBill
Mar 8, 2023 7 tweets 7 min read
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-data-… @michelledonelan The #DPDIBill lowers the threshold for organisations to refuse a Subject Access Request and removes individuals’ right to not to be subjected to solely automated decision making. 2/7
Nov 24, 2022 9 tweets 6 min read
We’ve signed an open letter @RishiSunak on how the #OnlineSafetyBill threatens UK cybersecurity. The Bill introduces content scanning on our devices, compromising end-to-end encryption for individuals and business @encryption_day

Read in full here: openrightsgroup.org/blog/70-organi…

🧵1/9 We all rely on end-to-end encryption to protect our private data from cyber attacks, whether as an individual, a business or the country as a whole.

The #OnlineSafetyBill unlocks your data.

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Oct 19, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
🚨Twitter Passports are dangerous and impractical 🚨
Banning anonymity online will not solve the issue of abuse and will actually make people
less safe. THREAD (1/9)🧵 First, a massive amount of online abuse comes not from anonymous accounts but from those who are happy to spout hate in their own name. 99% of Twitter accounts suspended for racism during Euro 2020 were NOT anonymous. (2/9)
Nov 5, 2020 4 tweets 4 min read
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We're taking the ICO to court over their failure to stop widespread and systemic abuses of our privacy rights by the AdTech industry.

Help us protect your data from illegal ads ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/help-us-protec… Our Press release here ⬇️

#GDPR #Adtech #Privacy #Datarights #HumanRights #DigitalRights

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