ORG Scotland

Campaigning for your #DigitalRights in Scotland | People have the right to control their own technology & oppose the use of technology to control us | Join us:

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Encryption isn't hostile. It's a bedrock of our cybersecurity.

The UK's national security laws join a long line of attempts to frame encrypted messaging as something to be broken apart.

Without it, we're more open to threats from hackers and criminals.

https://t.co/G4m2swrZmL

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

⚠️ The #DataBill will unleash AI harms ⚠️

Being stripped back is the right to human review over automated decisions – even if they have life-changing impacts.

Life mustn’t be haunted by the ghost in the machine.

Sign our petition: keep human review!

➡️ https://t.co/7QtOYcxKnP

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

e-Visas will be used to enter the UK, work, access services and rent accommodation.

So any problems with the system will have serious consequences for people's lives.

The problem? Its very design will create these problems.

Here's what can go wrong and why we must #stopEvisas.

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

As companies eye up our data to train AI, the @ICOnews is leaving a data protection enforcement gap.

This weakness sends the message that the use of our data is fair game, leaving one-sided commercial exploitation unchecked.

Read our latest blog ⬇️

https://t.co/gke6wXEV4M

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

The e-Visa system is a guessing game in real-time.

Algorithms will live match applications across databases to give a status when it's being checked. There are no individual user records.

So anyone could suffer an error at any time.

Our blog explains ⬇️ https://t.co/Wa5eMAm3kY

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

What's wrong with e-Visas?

Replacing physical documents, migrants' proof of status will be checked in real-time online.

Using error-prone algorithmic guesswork, records will be live matched and rematched across multiple databases.

It's a recipe for disaster.

#stopEvisas

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

🚨 e-Visas = the making of a digital Windrush scandal.

Our report finds this digital-only proof of status will expose millions of migrants to error-prone systems, leaving them unable to prove their right to be in the UK.

We must #stopEvisas.

Read now ⬇️ https://t.co/x4j2i8iqKH

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

The e-Visa scheme could create another Windrush scandal.

By the end of 2024, proof of the right to be in the UK will be fully digitalised.

Up to 4 million migrants will be at risk of not being able to prove their status offline.

Tell your MP #stopEvisas https://t.co/jENAtgEGeo

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Predictive policing is UNJUST.

It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.

With 16 other civil society groups, we say:

BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime. #SafetyNotSurveillance

➡️ https://t.co/6pr53m0HLU

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Is privacy back on the chopping block? 🤔

A Digital Information and Smart Data Bill was announced by the new government with a narrower scope around data protection reform.

We warn against reintroducing elements of the disastrous DPDI Bill.

Read now ⬇️ https://t.co/S8t7SqhKnI

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Meta wants your data to train its AI without your consent.

Making its users test subjects for this experimental technology.

ORG has complained to the @ICOnews, calling on them to prevent the processing of data for this purpose.

Read our latest blog ⬇️

https://t.co/nEO00vSNp7

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Our open letter to #GE2024 candidates from 37 civil society groups calls for the use of humanising and respectful language about migrants and refugees.

Words shape our collective future. It must be one where everyone is valued and afforded dignity.

➡️ https://t.co/2BBkzFhdHW

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Words shape how migrants and refugees are treated.

ORG and 36 other civil society groups have signed an open letter to all #GeneralElection2024 candidates.

We call on them to not use hateful language when talking about migrants and refugees.

Read now ➡️ https://t.co/2BBkzFhdHW

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Data profiling by political parties is mostly guesstimation of who you are.

Machine-born caricatures guiding an industry that's capable of political interference, eventually looping back into voter behaviour.

Data protection hands power back to voters.

https://t.co/YuZhlOnnzG

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

As technology advances, new ways to track, profile and impact us emerge.

Digital rights protect us from real-world harms, enabling us to challenge decisions and new forms of surveillance.

Our Manifesto sets out what the next government needs to do ⬇️

https://t.co/egTbZHOTsl

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

ORG has launched our Manifesto to protect digital rights ✊

From URL to IRL, digital rights keep us safe from government and Big-Tech surveillance, as well as hackers and criminal threats.

Here are six pledges the next government should prioritise ⬇️

https://t.co/egTbZHOTsl

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Calling all #GeneralElection candidates 📣

Today we're publishing our Digital Rights Manifesto 🦾

It's time to stop the attacks on privacy, freedom of expresssion online and data protection.

Read our six pledges to protect digital rights ⬇️

https://t.co/egTbZHPrhT

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

It's a data-driven election.

That's why ORG is launching a new tool so you can opt-out of political parties processing your data.

Using data to predict how people will vote and target messaging can distort the democratic process.

You should have a say. https://t.co/eApfNOrmub

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

ORG calls on the government to SCRAP the controversial #DPDIBill now that they've called a #GeneralElection for 4 July.

A Bill that batters our data rights shouldn't be rammed through last minute, bypassing the remaining stages of Parliamentary scrutiny.

https://t.co/JMFz2X4onW

[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

🚨A scandal in the making🚨

Under the #DPDIBill @DWPgovuk will have welfare surveillance powers over all benefit claimants.

This data could be misinterpreted and sanctions imposed incorrectly.

ORG’s Head of Comms, Pam Cowburn, was there to hand in the 270,000+ strong petition.