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17 Mar 2008 By Becky Hogge
Phorm update
It’s difficult to tell which of today’s developments the UK’s major ISPs should be more worried about – the fact that Sir Tim Berners-Lee has publicly stated that he would change his ISP if it started employing systems, like Phorm, which could track his activity on the internet, or the news that UK digital rights gurus the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) have today written an open letter to the Information Commissioner, urging him to look at the legality of Phorm.
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22 Jan 2008 By Becky Hogge
Devote Your Day to Democracy #2: London elections
Update: The ORG Electionwatch08 pledge has succeeded in record time!
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15 Nov 2007 By Becky Hogge
Electoral Commission: “e-voting not a mature technology”
Many thanks to Glyn for watching, and transcribing the most interesting bits of, the Scottish Affairs Committee public evidence session in the House of Commons earlier this week.
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13 Nov 2007 By Becky Hogge
Open Rights Group dismayed by Ministry of Justice response on e-voting
In the May 2007 local elections Open Rights Group observers, accredited by the Electoral Commission, took part in the monitoring of pilot electronic voting and electronic counting schemes.
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24 Oct 2007 By Jason Kitcat
Gould Review on Scottish Elections Published
The Electoral Commission and the separate review by Ron Gould that the Commission instituted have published their reports on the Scottish elections of May 2007
The Gould Review in particular identifies a number of important issues, many of which ORG addressed in our own report on the elections published this June.
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03 Sep 2007 By Becky Hogge
Gordon Brown at the NCVO: e-Voting off the agenda?
In a speech to the National Council of Voluntary Organisations this morning, Gordon Brown announced he would be convening a Speaker’s conference on voting reform:
Today I am proposing to the Speaker that he calls a conference to consider, against the backdrop of a decline in turnout, a number of important issues, such as electoral registration, weekend voting, and the representation of women and ethnic minorities in the House of Commons.
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29 Aug 2007 By Michael Holloway
Should we trust electronic elections?
Update: Supporter meetup venues and dates now confirmed – see you there!
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02 Aug 2007 By Becky Hogge
ORG welcomes Electoral Commission recommendation to halt pilots
The Electoral Commission released its official evaluation of the 3 May electoral pilots in England this morning.
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29 Jun 2007 By Becky Hogge
Watch launch of ORG’s e-voting report
Last week, at the official launch of ORG’s report into e-voting and e-counting in the May 2007 elections, we invited MPs, civil servants and other stakeholders to come and listen to the findings of our observation mission.
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20 Jun 2007 By Jason Kitcat
ORG Election Report highlights problems with voting technology used
Today ORG releases its report into the May 2007 elections in Scotland and England.
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08 May 2007 By Jason Kitcat
A big ORG thank you to our Election Observers
A huge thank you to our entire team of Election Observers who went way beyond the call of duty in their work monitoring last week’s elections.
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04 Apr 2007 By Becky Hogge
ElectionWatch 2007 – ORG goes north of the border
Breaking news from the Scottish Electoral Commission – ORG can observe the election in Scotland!
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23 Mar 2007 By Becky Hogge
Footage from February e-voting events now online
We’ve finally got video footage from two of our February e-voting events online.
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23 Mar 2007 By Becky Hogge
ORG Election Watch 2007: Registration Pack now online
Our guide to registering to become part of ORG’s volunteer Election Watch 2007 team is now online.
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07 Mar 2007 By Becky Hogge
Election Watch 2007 – Devote your day to democracy!
Doing anything exciting on election day?
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07 Feb 2007 By Becky Hogge
South Warwickshire clinicians sharing smart cards
Last week, news emerged that the board of South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust is allowing clinicians in their Accident and Emergency department to share smart cards.
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29 Jan 2007 By Jason Kitcat
May 2007 e-Voting Pilots Announced
Finally, two months behind schedule, the Government has announced which local authorities will be running e-voting pilots.
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16 Jan 2007 By Michael Holloway
Taking the lid off e-voting
While the Department for Constitutional Affairs have left us in the dark with no news at all about the e-voting pilots due for May 2007, The Open Rights Group and FIPR have been hard at work.
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13 Aug 2006 By Glyn Wintle
Freedom of Expression – China’s Internet
The House of Commons’ Select Committee on Foreign Affairs have published a report on East Asia that strongly critisices internet corporations working for the Chinese government to filter, censor and control web content.
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27 Jul 2006 By Glyn Wintle
Consultation on penalties for breaching the DPA
Baroness Ashton has published a consultation paper on proposed custodial penalties for breaches of Section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998, which deals with unlawful obtaining of personal data.
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21 Jul 2006 By Glyn Wintle
Public meeting on RIPA consultations
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act Part III gives law enforcement the power to serve notices requiring that encrypted material be “put into an intelligible form” (or as everyone else would say, decrypted).
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13 Jul 2006 By Glyn Wintle
Information Commissioners annual report
Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, has published his annual report.
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06 Jul 2006 By Suw Charman Anderson
What do businesses know about you?
Matt Mower has made a pledge on Pledgebank to write to a supplier – say a mobile phone company – to ask them what they know about him, as per the Data Protection Act, but he needs more people to sign up.
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