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Open Rights and digital freedom

...digital and civil freedoms. ORG will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital rights issues and follows in the... Read more

12 September, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Concerns raised over plans for global wiretap

...IETF) is currently working on protocols to intercept such calls. One group, Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties, sent an open letter to the IETF urging... Read more

11 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Liberty groups blast Net ratings proposal

...restrictions on Internet expression," the group writes in a statement. UK-based Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties is among those critical of regulating content on the... Read more

9 September, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Encryption U-turn slammed as naive and foolish

...way forward." But Yaman Akdeniz of the UK's civil liberties organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties said the U-turn is a result of... Read more

28 April, 1998 by Richard Barry

Digital rights group hits support milestone

The Open Rights Group has found 1,000 contributing individuals to help protect civil liberties in the electronic age Read more

29 November, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Government accused of hidden e-commerce agenda

Select committee remain concerned that the government has yet to rid itself of its previous attachment to key escrow Read more

4 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee

Privacy organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties has submitted its objections to Internet surveillance ahead... Read more

22 March, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

News Burst: Government accused of suppressing software

...software according to Nicholas Bohm, e-commerce adviser to civil liberties organisation Cyber Rights Read more

8 September, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

eBay faces data protection inquiry

...commerce sites who abuse the privacy of their users. The civil- and cyber-rights group complained to the UK's Information Commissioner this week about... Read more

31 August, 2006 by Graeme Wearden

Campaigners back call for DRM debate

...over digital rights management (DRM) and copyright law has been welcomed by cyber rights campaigners. Suw Charman, executive director of The Open Rights Group, said... Read more

15 March, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Entertainment industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive'

Cyber-rights groups have accused the entertainment industry of attempting to hijack the... Read more

24 November, 2005 by Graeme Wearden and Karen Gomm

Are these the Sony rootkit CDs?

...Cyber-rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claimed on Wednesday to have... Read more

10 November, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

Digital rights group to fight data retention

...digital and civil freedoms. ORG will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital rights issues and follows in the... Read more

12 September, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Group warns of Europe's 'DMCA on steroids'

...The group includes three British organisations, the Campaign for Digital Rights (CDR), Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties, and the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), as... Read more

11 August, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Government withdraws surveillance plan

...to see those standards being applied," said Dr Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties, last week. "The real damage was the enactment of... Read more

18 June, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

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