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Bill, also known as the UK data protection reform, came back to the House of Lords for what was supposed to be its final ...
The UK Government is trying to use algorithms to predict which people are most likely to become killers using sensetive ...
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 e-visa scheme a ‘success’ and says that it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Voters are still being profiled based on wealth and income indicators, often sourced from third-party commercial datasets.
Social media giant Meta is profiting from the global migrant crisis – enabling both criminals and the UK Home Office to target vulnerable migrants with adverts. Research by ORG found that fraudulent ...
Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, sit at the intersection of the attention economy and surveillance capitalism. Meta’s business model is built on maximising user attention while ...