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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 6d

Fancy handing over all your data to Oracle or Palantair? Lets make that easy with the new Digital ID cards!

Join the campaign: Say No to Digital IDs action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaig... #idcards

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 7d

You will be forced to pay £2.99 per month to use Facebook or Instagram if you don't want to have your personal data being used for targeted ads.

Meta is forcing us to CONSENT or PAY!

Tell your MP to support the EDM calling for an end to Stalker Ads.

action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-meta-no...

Tell Meta no to stalker ads: Urge your MP to sign the Early Day Motion

Take action! What's the problem? Meta is denying people their legal right to object to their personal data being used in targeted online adverts. This is despite the outcome of a legal case brought…

action.openrightsgroup.org

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 7d

Is cookie consent going to change in the UK? Read Mariano delli Santi's Blog on how the ICO’s new enforcement approach toward regulating advertising shouldn't undermine our privacy.

www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-fut...

Is cookie consent going to change in the UK?

Open Rights Group convened a stakeholder roundtable on the future of adtech and cookie consent requirements in the UK following the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) consultation on a new…

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 8d

If you haven't yet join our campaign:
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Join the Campaign: Say No To Digital IDs

What is happening? The Government is proposing that everyone in the UK should have mandatory Digital ID cards to prove their right to work. Here's why we need to push back hard on this idea: Today…

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 8d

‘Digital IDs really become about surveillance and profiling the population. Once these systems are in place, they expand and expand.’

Listen to James Baker, ORG’s Platform Power and Free Expression program manager on @LBCNews

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7sy...

ORG's James Baker discusses digital ID cards on LBC

Open Rights Group's James Baker talks to Charlotte Lynch @LBCOfficial about why the government's proposals for ID cards risk becoming a means for surveilling and profiling the British public.

www.youtube.com

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 9d

ORG will be at the Campaign Fringe at #Lab25.

Come visit our stall to talk effective campaigning for digital privacy and defending our rights online 🛡️

📍 Camp and Furnace, 67 Greenland St, Liverpool L1 0BY, UK
🕛 11:00 - 19:00

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The Campaign Fringe at Labour Conference 2025 · Luma

What actually works in campaigning right now? How are progressive campaigns reaching the people that matter, breaking through the noise, and building power in…

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 11d

The Government planned new digital ID scheme, risks becoming a passport to everyday life, where without it, you can’t work or rent. Once in place, these systems always expand, creating surveillance, and exclusion.

Support the fight, donate to ORG: action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-don...

Make a one-off donation

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 12d

Today it's a mandatory digital ID card to prove you have the right to work but in the future you might have to use it to access the NHS, to rent or buy a home, or to access benefits.

It's time to fight back, 'Say No to Digital IDs'.

Join the Campaign: action.openrightsgroup.org/join-campaig...

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 13d

We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone.

They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are just to go about our daily lives.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards

Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

www.theguardian.com

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 13d

Meta is denying people their legal right to object to their personal data being used in targeted online adverts.

Urge your MP to stand up to Meta and support your right to object to your personal data being used for targeted advertising.

action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-meta-no...

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 16d

So apparently part of the issue with #threads is that they moved domain from threads.net to threads.com with the result that fediverse domain handles are no longer obvious and transparent. Kind of screams neglect and don’t care won’t fix.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 19d

Learn more in our blog on why prevention not prediction should be the priority if safety is the goal www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-pre....

Why ‘Predictive’ Policing Must be Banned

The UK Government is trying to use algorithms to predict which people are most likely to become killers using sensetive personal data of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 19d

They plan on installing these flawed and biased technologies in the most diverse parts of the borough including outside Shepherd’s Bush Market on Uxbridge Road, Wood Lane outside Westfield and on King Street.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 19d

Hammersmith & Fulham Council ( @hfcouncil.bsky.social ) are making cuts and yet they're allocating another £3.2 million to facial recognition, even recommending the use of drones as an "enforcement aid".

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 21d

First people were arrested for projecting an image. Now an ad van protesting Trump has been stopped. This heavy handed approach to Policing speech is harming free expression in the UK www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic... #censorship #freedomofexpression #Trump

Ad van with picture of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein stopped by cops in Windsor

Footage shows an advertising ban with an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein being driven away by a police officer as the US President's visit was targeted

www.mirror.co.uk

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 21d

"Ad van with picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein confiscated by cops in Windsor"

#trump visit to the UK is delivering a free speech clampdown. #freespeech #onlinesafetyact

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ad-van-picture-donald-trump-35916462

Ad van with picture of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein stopped by cops in Windsor

Footage shows an advertising ban with an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein being driven away by a police officer as the US President's visit was targeted

www.mirror.co.uk

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 22d

Perhaps unsurprisingly, threads.com seems increasingly broken from an #activitypub perspective; subscriptions to external accounts frequently fail, and it is not picking up posts from certain user accounts.

#threads

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 23d

(4/4) Support the open rights group- action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-don...

Make a one-off donation

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 23d

(3/4) Add your Wordpress or Drupal blog to the Fediverse with a plug in, so that people can follow and react to your blog posts.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 23d

(2/4) If you run a Threads or BlueSky account, make it accessible to Fediverse / Mastodon users or with Bridgyfed fed.brid.gy

Bridgy Fed

Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

fed.brid.gy

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 23d

(1/4) Don’t just post on X, but create accounts on alternative social media platforms, like mastodon.social

Mastodon

The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

mastodon.social

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 23d

It’s time to break Big Tech’s monopoly, the future of the internet must be open, federated, and user-controlled.

Here is four things you can do: 👇

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 23d

Elon Musk has attacked the UKs democracy, calling for Parliament to be dissolved, and Meta is denying us even the basic right to opt out of personalised ads.

We’re locked into platforms like X (formerly Twitter) or Meta (Facebook, Instagram) because that’s where the people are. But costs are high.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 27d

VPNs protect families, businesses and democracy.

They keep NHS data secure, help parents manage online risks, and give people in repressive states access to news.

Treating VPNs as a “problem” is misguided. Attacking them is an exercise in throwing the baby out with the bath water.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 27d

VPNs aren’t a meaningful threat to age assurance.

⚫ 6-12 year olds are very unlikely to use them, due to technological and economic barriers.

⚫ Older teens already know other workarounds.

⚫ Adults use VPNs because they don’t trust unregulated age assurance providers with their personal data.

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