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Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

For Data Protection Day 2026, we're taking you from Ancient Rome to now.

Our rights expanded in the Information Age to include the electronic body. Data is our DNA.

But now protections are shrinking. All while surveillance becomes industrialised, AI outstrips regulation and our institutions fall under corporate capture.

We must learn from history and course correct now.

Read our blog ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/give-a-bit-theyll-take-a-megabyte-data-protection-then-and-now/

#DataProtectionDay #dataprotection #privacy #humanrights #DataPrivacyDay

Open Rights Group

Give a bit, they’ll take a megabyte: Data Protection Then and Now

Data Protection Day 2026 As the Center for Democracy and Technology reports, “In what state officials have described as a “ransom note”, the Department of Justice over the weekend reissued demands for full access to Minnesota’s records on Medicaid, Food and Nutrition Service programs […], and voter rolls”.
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