Open Rights Group

The Open Rights Group is a new not-for-profit digital rights activist group, working to raise the profile of digital rights issues in the media and help other groups get their voices heard. Its goals are:
* to raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses
* to provide a media clearinghouse, connecting journalists with experts and activists
* to preserve and extend traditional civil liberties in the digital world
* to collaborate with other digital rights and related organisations
* to nurture a community of campaigning volunteers, from grassroots activists to technical and legal experts.

For a strange view of this week’s inaugural event, check out this blog posting. Doesn’t sound like my sort of thing at all.