The Right to Privacy
Although traditionally United Kingdom law as not had a free standing ‘right to privacy’, there are a number of laws which protect your privacy. Since the coming to force of the Human Rights Act 1998, the law has developed and individuals have significantly greater scope to use the law to protect their privacy. This chapter will look at how the law protects the right to privacy in a number of different contexts:
- Article 8-the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence
- Confidential information
- Data Protection
- Revealing your convictions and your involvement with the police
- Telephone Tapping and Interception of Communications
- Surveillance and Undercover Human Intelligent Sources
- Other Types of Surveillance
- Investigation of Electronic Data Protected by Encryption
- Retention of fingerprings, DNA samples and photographs
- Harassment, unwanted letters and phone calls
- Power of Officials to Enter Your Home
- Gender Identity and Sexuality
- Privacy and the Media
- The Right to Privacy
