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UK digital rights group sets up

September 9, 2005 on 11:36 pm | No Comments
Categories: copyright, european union, law, law, copyright and drm, uk
Tags: copyright, eff, electronic-frontier-foundation, eu, european union, law, open-rights-group, org, uk

Good show, chaps! It’s about time we had a European version of the EFF!

UK digital rights group sets up:

A UK-based organisation to preserve digital rights and freedoms has been set up thanks to pledges of money by those passionate about such rights. It says it wants to highlight European and UK legislation which could threaten the rights of digital citizens.

Still at early stages, the Open Rights Group (Org) will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital rights issues.

Org emulates US’s Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) digital rights group. The EFF has campaigned against entertainment industry attempts to limit what people can do with digital media. It has also provided guidelines and legal advice to bloggers at work, and has helped shape e-voting policies.

Org aims to nurture a grassroots community of volunteers to campaign on digital rights issues, such as ID card proposals, biometric passports, data protection, “fair use” rights over digital content, and vehicle tracking technologies.

(Via BBC News | TECHNOLOGY.)