Open Rights Group
The Open Rights Group ( ORG , English for group for open rights ) is a not-for-profit organization from the United Kingdom founded in 2005 , which is committed to upholding and strengthening human rights , such as the protection of privacy or freedom of expression with regard to the digital revolution or freedom of information begins. Parts of the activities are internet activism .
history
On the Open Tech - Conference 2005 during a panel discussion the question of a British organization like the Electronic Frontier Foundation discussed. As a result, Danny O'Brien took an oath at PledgeBank on June 25, 2005 that he would open a standing order for £ 5 to an organization that advocates for digital rights within the United Kingdom, provided that by April 25, 2005, December 2005 1,000 other people set it up . The required number of supporters was reached on November 29th. The Open Rights Group was then also founded on November 29, 2005 by Danny O'Brien, Cory Doctorow , Ian Brown, Rufus Pollock, James Cronin, Stefan Magdalinski, Louise Ferguson and Suw Charman in Soho (London).
Campaigns & Activities
After the founding of the first criticized campaign the efforts of the British government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown a retention to install. After Becky Hogge replaced the first managing director Suw Charman-Anderson in 2007, the topics of privacy and data protection on the Internet as well as copyright were added. The ORG played a key role in criticizing the plans for electronic elections .
Semantic targeting
In 2008, the Phrom group was informed that it had planned to operate semantic targeting using devices that evaluate the data traffic of an Internet user. Phrom's activities became known after customers of British Telecom discovered that it was already conducting field tests on “data pimping” (see also: Targeted Advertising ). The managing director Jim Killock, who has been in office since 2009, brought this campaign to a successful end in 2010, the European Commission for Consumer Protection called on the United Kingdom to protect Internet users' data from being used without their consent, and several large corporations followed the ORG's call to exclude such use.
Digital Economy Act
The Digital Economy Act 2010 by Peter Mandelson included alongside content filters also have the option to ban Internet access for suspicion or proven cases of copyright infringement and was the target of a broad campaign of ORG with 38 Degrees and the National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty). As a result, individual passages were removed from the law.
Department of Dirty
Since 2014, the Department of Dirty campaign has been campaigning against content filters , which are common in the UK. The main points of criticism are the lack of legitimacy, since the introduction and use is not regulated by law , but only came about on the basis of non-public meetings of interest groups , Christian Safermedia and Premier Christian Media with Claire Perry . In addition, the individual websites that are blocked are often not harmful to minors , but simply incorrectly, for example due to a combination of keywords according to their weighting . Blocked.org.uk was set up for clarification, checking of individual websites and for analysis .
ORGCon
Since 2010, an annual conference "ORGCon" is organized as "crash course in digital rights" ( crash course for digital rights ) in view of the forthcoming at this time adoption of the Digital Economy Act by the Parliament of the United Kingdom was advertised, . The original version of the Digital Economy Act included, for example, censorship on the Internet (blocking of websites ) after copyright infringement or before, when presumably and likely to be carried out.
financing
The ORG had around 106,000 pounds sterling (pounds) available for the 2009 financial year . About 20 percent of this was donated by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust , and more than £ 60,000 was raised by private donors. 2012, total revenues amounted to approximately 238,000 pounds, of which 92,000 came from natural and about 129,000 pounds of legal persons .
Employees
The ORG has several employees, such as a full-time executive director ( Jim Killock ), a communications officer (Pam Cowburn), a project manager , a system administrator and a lawyer .
Awards
The Open Rights Group has received several awards:
- 2008: "Big Brother Award" from Privacy International
- 2012: "Campaigner of the Year" together with 38 Degrees from the National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty)
See also
Web links
- official website ( English )
- Department of Dirty onYouTube-Satire videofromcontent filteringandcensorship on the Internet(English)
- blocked.org.uk - campaign to blocked Web sites ( Content Filter ) ( English )
- Open Rights Group on the ORG YouTube channel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pledge “rights” ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , pledgebank.com. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ↑ Cory Doctorow: ORGCon: London, July 24 - book now! , boingboing.net, June 16, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- ↑ Finances and governance , openrightsgroup.org. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- ↑ Open Rights Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended October 31, 2012 , openrightsgroup.org. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- ↑ openrightsgroup.org/staff , openrightsgroup.org. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- ↑ The Big Brother awards are back , gizmonaut.net, December 12, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- ^ Liberty and The Civil Liberties Trust: A Year in Review 2012 , liberty-human-rights.org.uk. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
