Data and Democracy
Blog
22 Apr 2024 By Mariano delli Santi
The DPDI Bill Threatens the Integrity of the UK General Election
In our latest briefing, Open Rights Group raises the alarm over changes in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDI Bill) that could open the floodgate for the abuse of data analytics and new technologies for electoral manipulation.
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Blog
22 Jan 2021 By Matthew Rice
ORG Takes Political Parties to Privacy Watchdog
On 11 December 2020, the eve of the anniversary of the 2019 General Election Open Rights Group submitted complaints, represented by the data rights firm AWO, to the Information Commissioner’s Office on behalf of data subjects on the processing of personal data by the Labour Party, the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Liberal Democrats.
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04 August, 2020
Publication
Democratic Innovations: Polis and the political process
Open Rights Group and Demos yesterday published an exciting new report that provides insight on public attitudes towards data driven campaigning.
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23 June, 2020
Publication
Who Do They Think We Are?
Political Parties, Political Profiling, and The Law.
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Campaign
Who do they think you are?
Political parties are profiling voters across the UK, using personal data purchased from the same people who give you a credit score to try and guess information about your religious and political beliefs, family life and social status.
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Blog
07 Apr 2020 By Pascal Crowe
Democracy and Covid-19
The Covid 19 epidemic has disrupted our economic and social life unlike anything seen in peacetime.
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Blog
31 Mar 2020 By Pascal Crowe
Imprints: who’s responsible?
Many proposed electoral reforms are highly contested.
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Blog
24 Mar 2020 By Pascal Crowe
We need political accountability more than ever- and the ICO can lead the way
We are living in an unprecedented historical moment.
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Blog
31 Jan 2020 By Pascal Crowe
APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency adopt ORG reforms
Last summer, Open Rights Group gave oral evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Electoral Campaigning Transparency.
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Blog
09 Dec 2019 By Amy Shepherd
Profiling, Political opinions, and Data Protection – The Legal Background
We’re campaigning to stop political parties abusing personal data in their rush to try and win elections.
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Blog
02 Sep 2019 By Pascal Crowe
Out for the count : the £9 million white elephant in London’s next election
Electronic counting in London – the subject of criticism from the Electoral Commission and Open Rights Group for many years – is now spiralling in cost.
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Campaign
Data and Democracy
Open Rights Group’s Data and Democracy project seeks to prevent digital technologies from eroding public trust in the democratic process.
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Blog
28 Jun 2019 By Pascal Crowe
Hunting for a solution? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
It seems apt that it was at this week’s ‘digital hustings’ for the Conservative Party leadership that Jeremy Hunt unilaterally came out in favour of online voting.
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Campaign
Preventing online voting fraud
Concerned about the risk of fraud in electronic voting, one of our early campaigns was deploying volunteer teams of technical experts in 2007 and 2008 to produce analyses of the e-voting systems used in both trial and live elections.
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