Text: Revealing the Harms of Digital ID – ORG gave evidence at a Parliamentary Select Committee on Digital ID and published a joint briefing to MPs. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

Digital ID will be one of the biggest stories of 2026. And ORG is ready to fight 🦾

This year, we gave written and oral evidence to the Select Committee. We highlighted the risks that these plans pose to privacy and civil liberties.

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Text: Empowering People to Exercise Rights – ORG launched a toolkit for migrants and the sector on how data is used for immigration control and how to access their data. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

ORG partnered with @positiveactionh.bsky.social to produce a toolkit for migrants to know their data rights ✊

We're empowering people to find out what organisations know about them, to correct errors and make a complaint.

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Text: Fighting for Data Protection – ORG challenged the harms of the Data Use and Access Bill and led on the demand for an inquiry into the ICO. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

2025: The year of the UK's new Data Act 🫠

ORG battled to protect our right to human review over automated decisions, to block Big Tech influence, increase accountability of the data watchdog and strengthen electoral integrity.

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Text: Defending Encryption – ORG challenged the secret hearing on the order to force a backdoor into Apple's encrypted products. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

2025 has seen sneaky attempts to break encryption. ORG was there to fight back 🔒

We resisted the attempt to force a backdoor into Apple encryption. We’ll keep fighting until the dangerous powers that remain on the books are gone.

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Text: Protecting Political Protest – ORG warned that the Online Safety Act combined with the ban on Palestine Action would lead to the censorship of protest. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

Political protest came under attack during 2025 🤐

ORG raised the alarm that platforms could suppress critical voices, journalism and social movements according to their duty to remove 'illegal' content under the Online Safety Act.

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Text: Fixing the Online Safety Act – ORG detailed how to improve the Act and we led the call for the regulation of age verification providers. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

It wouldn't have been 2025 without the Online Safety Act hitting the fan 🫥

Whether it's fighting for age verification providers to be regulated or for a rights-based approach to fix the Act, ORG has followed every twist and turn.

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Text: Challenging Crime Predicting Tech – ORG took direct action as a coalition partner at the National Policing Conference and petitioned to ban crime-predicting tech. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

ORG called for unjust 'crime-predicting' tech to be banned from policing 🚨

Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing. Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.

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Text: Investigating Electioneering Apps – ORG's investigation uncovered privacy and security gaps in the canvassing apps used by political parties. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

ORG revealed that political parties' canvassing apps threaten voter privacy 🗳️

They use commercially owned infrastructure that are rife with security vulnerabilities.

We lose in a data arms race that's driving electioneering.

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Text: Taking on Stalker Ads – ORG published three reports, collaborated in a direct action and launched a tool to opt-out of targeted advertising on Meta. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.

In 2025, ORG stood up against invasive Stalker Ads 🚫

We investigated how Meta's targeted advertising model fuels discrimination and spreads misinformation. And we helped you to object to Meta using your data for ads.

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Text: Exposing eVisa Harms – ORG collaborated on a report into the digitalised immigration system and called for the ICO to investigate the Home Office's failings. Image: Green and pink abstract textured background.

This year, ORG exposed the harms of the eVisa scheme ⚠️

Errors and glitches in this system have left migrants unable to prove their immigration status.

ORG calls on the Home Office to provide physical proof to alleviate anxiety.

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ORG End of Year Review 2025 Digital rights in 2025 From age verification and digital ID to crime-predicting tech and attacks on migrants’ digital rights, this year we had to fight harder than ever against Big tech and…

Aaaand that's a wrap on 2025 🙃

From eVisas and crime-predicting tech to Stalker Ads and the Online Safety Act, ORG has fought for digital rights all the way.

With Digital ID, encryption battles and more ahead, it's time for a recap.

Check out #ORG2025 ⬇️

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