The algorithmic censorship of content and the threat to end-to-end encryption need addressing
Online Safety Bill edges forwards but issues remain
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
How to request access to closed files on the Royal Family
Help Index on Censorship in its campaign to #EndRoyalSecrecy
Royal secrecy surveyed
As part of our special report Index sent a survey to 28 historians and journalists who work with archives related to the Royal Family. We received 10 responses. The majority wanted to remain anonymous – interesting in and of itself.
2023: No calm water ahead
Happy New Year! I think we can all agree, regardless of where we live, that 2022 was a tumultuous year. There was seemingly a new crisis every...
Seeing Auschwitz is a timely reminder of the importance of documenting atrocities
A new exhibition in London takes a different viewpoint on the horrors of the Holocaust
Why end-to-end encryption is essential for national security and public safety
As the Online Safety Bill makes its way through Parliament, we look at why at least one element of the proposed legislation has not been thought through properly
Crown Confidential: Access to Historical Records about the Royal Family
]Are the British Royal Family the real enemies of history? Over the decades they have actively suppressed uncomfortable narratives about themselves....
An insidious and unlegislated form of policing?
The Metropolitan Police has made hundreds of requests to remove online content in the past year. Every single one of them related to drill music. This is dangerously close to systemic racism, believes Shereener Browne
New legal opinion on the Online Safety Bill
Index on Censorship has commissioned a legal opinion by Matthew Ryder KC and finds that the powers conceived would not be lawful under our common law and the existing human rights legal framework
Letter to Justice Secretary: Adoption of a UK Anti-SLAPP Law
Editors, journalists, lawyers and academics write to Dominic Raab to express support for the Model UK Anti-SLAPP Law launched by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition
Journalists will struggle to speak truth to power if the power isn’t showing up
Rishi Sunak’s decision to end the traditional morning media round is a mistake, says our CEO Ruth Anderson
“The Online Safety Bill will fundamentally undermine rights to freedom of expression”
Index and other organisations ask UN Special Rapporteurs to intervene on proposed UK legislation
