I consider the ORG like I might consider a union for tech workers. It's far from the same thing, but it does work to protect the fundamental freedoms that allowed us to train for our profession.
If you work in the technology industry in the UK, please consider paying "union dues" to stop the bizarre laws which haven't been thought out and just don't make any sense (eg. "ban encryption", "backdoors in everything"), and instead force politicans to pass technology-affecting laws that actually make sense.
It's a small price to pay out of your paycheck if you consider that it's effectively insurance for all your future paychecks.
[I'm a passive ORG supporter but otherwise have no affiliation]
It's strange, there's already a professional association (the British Computer Society) but they're not useful. They're very conservative/blue chip, not very "Internet culture" at all.
Even more ludicrously there's the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.
(I too am an ORG donor and got involved with the consultation on Scottish identity database)
If you work in the technology industry in the UK, please consider paying "union dues" to stop the bizarre laws which haven't been thought out and just don't make any sense (eg. "ban encryption", "backdoors in everything"), and instead force politicans to pass technology-affecting laws that actually make sense.
It's a small price to pay out of your paycheck if you consider that it's effectively insurance for all your future paychecks.
[I'm a passive ORG supporter but otherwise have no affiliation]