WIKIUser:Ryan/Privacy Audit
< User:RyanPrivacy law covers a vast and increasing range of areas and topics: data protection, human rights, identity theft, financial information, medical records, biometric data, employment information, monitoring of internet usage, online advertising, use of online social networks and more.
This study aims to provide an overview of privacy law in the UK as it relates to most people in their everyday lives. This means that the developing area of privacy via court injunction will be omitted, focus instead being on legislation made by Parliament and the Executive which by turns promotes and threatens the privacy of individuals.
Why Privacy?
Why is privacy important? Isn't privacy dead? What does it mean, and how has its meaning changed?
(History of Privacy in the UK)
The UK's Privacy Framework
Several Acts primarily concerned with the exposure of official information also include provisions limiting disclosure in the interests of the privacy of individuals (eg Data Protection Act 1997 s.40[1], Environmental Information Regulations 2004 s.13[2]).
Data Protection Act 1998[3]
This Act implemented "Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data"[4]. See here for much more information.
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000[5]
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003[6]
References
- ↑ Freedom of Information Act 2000, s.40. Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40>, accessed 2011-06-28
- ↑ Environmental Information Regulations 2004, s.13. Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/40>, accessed 2011-06-28.
- ↑ Data Protection Act 1998. Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents>, accessed 2011-06-28.
- ↑ Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. Available at <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31995L0046:EN:HTML>, accessed 2011-06-28.
- ↑ Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/contents>, accessed 2011-06-28.
- ↑ Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/contents/made>, accessed 2011-06-28.