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Open Rights Group - Donate
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Open Rights Group is funded directly by people who care about digital rights. Joining by Direct Debit. Is the best way to become an ORG member. The paperwork and processing costs are cheaper, meaning more of your hard-earned cash can go towards campaigning for digital rights. Did you join as a student or unwaged member and now have full time employment? Or maybe you have a little bit of extra cash you'd like to see put to good use? If so please consider upgrading your membership. Other Ways to Give to ORG.
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Open Rights Group - 10 years for copyright infringement should be limited to criminals causing serious harm
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Executive Director, Jim Killock said:. More information is available here. ORG has created an online form. To allow people to respond to the IPO consultation, which closes on August 17. Review of bulk surveillance powers gives one side of the argument. IPBill Committee stage latest sitting. Is the CJEU passing the buck on data retention? Could Boris Johnson’s appointment persuade the Lords that we need judicial authorisation? Birmingham: Let's Grow Open Rights Group Birmingham in 2016.
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Open Rights Group - Licence
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All ORG materials, unless otherwise specified, are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The Open Rights Group reserves all rights to our logos. These are. Published under a Creative Commons licence however we are happy to discuss reuse on a case-by-case basis. If you wish to reuse our logos. Available as web fonts here. Available under the SIL Open Font Licence. Social network buttons by. Review of bulk surveillance powers gives one side of the argument.
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Open Rights Group - Copyright Reform
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Open Rights Group - Issue. In the UK, both the 2006 Gowers Review. And the 2011 Hargreaves Report (PDF). And that rightsholders did not allow detailed inspection of the methodology and workings of the evidence they offered. What you can do:. Support our right to parody campaign. 12 Tileyard Road, London, N7 9AH. 2005 - 2016, free to reuse except where stated. Credits.
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Open Rights Group - Latest
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Review of bulk surveillance powers gives one side of the argument. August 23, 2016. The review of bulk surveillance powers by David Anderson supports the operational case for the current practices of the agencies. The review did not look at the wider impacts of mass surveillance and any further discussions need to take both aspects into account. ORG responds to David Anderson's review of bulk surveillance. August 19, 2016. IPBill Committee stage latest sitting. July 22, 2016. July 20, 2016. July 20, 2016.
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Open Rights Group - Digital Britain: closing down the open internet
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June 17, 2009. Digital Britain: closing down the open internet. Promises to ‘ tackle piracy. Online. Extensive powers of blocking, filtering and reducing access to the internet will be put in place if anti-infringement letter writing campaigns are not successful. If ‘secondary legislation’ (rubber-stamped papers to parliament) is passed, new powers would be given to Ofcom to require ISPs to restrict access of alleged infringers. Those most likely to be affected by these heavy-handed proposals are not the...
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Open Rights Group - Say no to 10 years for file sharing
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Say no to 10 years for file sharing. Say no to 10 years for file sharing. Say no to 10 years for file sharing. Jump to the action. Please compose your own letter and add your own arguments. But feel free to use these as guidelines. Until the offence requires intent, long sentences are an inappropriate threat. The IPO should recommend to change the law to require intent. Businesses and individuals may refrain from legitimate activities because of the worry of extremely harsh setences. The IPO is consulting.
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Open Rights Group - The Phorm storm
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March 12, 2008. An interim Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) has now been published by Phorm. You can read it here. Pdf] The PIA, produced by 80/20 Thinking Ltd, predicts the media and public backlash against Phorm, and leaves several questions unanswered, including "Can an external attacker gain access to the required information to re-link [an] individual [with their] unique identifier? Over the last few weeks, the story that BT, Virgin and TalkTalk are signed up to trial a new technology called Phorm.
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Open Rights Group - Facebook takedowns: Burying bad news?
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April 29, 2011. Facebook takedowns: Burying bad news? News has broken today that a number of activist groups pages and user accounts on Facebook have been deleted, mostly from the anti-cuts movement. We are compiling a list of accounts suspended here. We are calling on Facebook to:. Work with these users to transfer their contacts and other information to whatever format Facebook regards as reasonable (eg, users to pages). Devise a notification system rather than simply deleting content;. Facebook seem t...
