Privacy

• Human Rights Act

  The Human Rights Act 1998 is an important and wide-ranging law that affects many parts of our lives. This leaflet explains what the Act says and how it works.

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Information and advice from other websites

• Respect for your private and family life

  Information on your right to respect for your private life, your family life, your home and your correspondence.

  From: Equality and Human Rights Commission

• Right to privacy

  Includes article 8 of the Human Rights Act. Also looks at confidential information, spent convictions and rehabilitation of offenders, telephone tapping, surveillance, harassment, unwanted letters and telephone calls, and the power of officials to enter your home.

  From: Liberty

• Monitoring at work

  Information on employer?s right to monitor activities at work including phone and email communications and the use of CCTV.

  From: Adviceguide from Citizens Advice

• Telephone tapping and interception of communications

  The laws about telephone tapping, intercepting post, and obtaining and disclosing communications data, for example by a telephone company, postal company or internet service provider.

  From: Liberty

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