Simon Willison's Weblog: openrightsgrouphttp://simonwillison.net/2009-10-05T15:39:07+00:00Simon WillisonRoyal Mail: closing job search over data dispute while sacking workers2009-10-05T15:39:07+00:002009-10-05T15:39:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/5/open/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2009/royal-mail-closing-job-search-over-data-dispute-while-sacking-workers">Royal Mail: closing job search over data dispute while sacking workers</a></strong></p>
The Royal Mail have cease-and-desisted ernestmarples.com, a free postcode geocoding API which powers a number of UK open democracy sites. One of the sites is Job Centre Pro Plus, creating a perfect opportunity for an ORG press release.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ernestmaples">ernestmaples</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/freeyourdata">freeyourdata</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geocoding">geocoding</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openrightsgroup">openrightsgroup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postcodes">postcodes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/royalmail">royalmail</a></p>
Your guilt at work2008-07-25T01:11:08+00:002008-07-25T01:11:08+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/25/danny/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/23/your-guilt-at-work/#comments">Your guilt at work</a></strong></p>
If ten people sign up for a tenner-a-month ORG membership and send their confirmation code to Danny O’Brien, he’ll put out a special one-off issue of NTK!
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/danny-obrien">danny-obrien</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ntk">ntk</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openrightsgroup">openrightsgroup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/org">org</a></p>
Growing the ORG community2008-07-07T18:42:23+00:002008-07-07T18:42:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/7/org/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/07/07/growing-the-org-community-and-having-fun-doing-it/">Growing the ORG community</a></strong></p>
The Open Rights Group want a fiver a month from 750 new people to support their excellent work fighting for digital civil liberties in the UK political arena. Going by their past performance this is a very worthwhile investment.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/civilliberties">civilliberties</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digitalrights">digitalrights</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openrightsgroup">openrightsgroup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/politics">politics</a></p>
ORG verdict on London Elections: "Insufficient evidence" to declare confidence in results2008-07-02T10:36:26+00:002008-07-02T10:36:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/2/open/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/07/02/org-verdict-on-london-elections-insufficient-evidence-to-declare-confidence-in-results/">ORG verdict on London Elections: "Insufficient evidence" to declare confidence in results</a></strong></p>
Electronic voting strikes again. Also of interest: the audit conducted by KPMG can’t be published due to “commercial confidentiality”.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/audit">audit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/elections">elections</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/electronicvoting">electronicvoting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kpmg">kpmg</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/london">london</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openrightsgroup">openrightsgroup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/org">org</a></p>
Open Rights Group: Our first two years2007-11-25T22:05:06+00:002007-11-25T22:05:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/25/open/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/11/19/open-rights-group-our-first-two-years/">Open Rights Group: Our first two years</a></strong></p>
ORG’s review of the past two years shows just how worthwhile a cause they have become—highlights include their hugely successful campaign against copyright term extension and their involvement in this year’s e-voting trials.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/copyright">copyright</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digitalrights">digitalrights</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/elections">elections</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/evoting">evoting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openrightsgroup">openrightsgroup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/org">org</a></p>