Ask HN: should we create the UK version of the EFF

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Many years ago I worked for the national council for civil liberties, (early ninties) and we created an idea called "electronic liberty" to be the UK EFF - it never took off and I moved on.

Should we revisit the concept?

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Are you familiar with ORG?

* http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

* https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Main_Page

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Rights_Group

Seems a bit single issue ?

Which issues are you looking for a UK group to cover and campaign on that ORG does not?

OK, the site is more relevant than the wikipedia entry.

I am surprised to learn there is none. Isn't that what Open Rights Group is? Even in the Netherlands we have had a digital rights advocacy group (Bits of Freedom [1]) since 2000. Having recently moved to the UK, I think the need for such a group here is much stronger (opt-out internet filters [2], calls from government to no longer make them optional [3] etc.).

[1] https://www.bof.nl [2] http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2012/new-reports-of-over... [3] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-cal...

the organisation Liberty has been campaigning on 'electronic liberty' issues and warrants our support on that basis, and others https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/index.php

That's the old National Council for Civil Liberties. :-)

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