Everyone has the right to respect for his of her private and family life, home and correspondence. This right is subject to proportionate and lawful restrictions.
Liberty campaigns on the key issues relating to the right to privacy in the UK today including:
Liberty has been involved in many key legal cases around the right to privacy, including recently:
Jenny Paton and her family were subjected to surveillance by Poole Council for three weeks in order to check whether they were living in the catchment area for the school that they wanted to get their youngest child into.
The Council used powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). We helped the family appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which ruled that the Council acted outside its powers under RIPA and violated the family’s rights under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
Read our press release to find out more about the case.
We also ran a successful campaign over many years against ID cards and the National Identity Register, which could have held potentially unlimited amounts of information about every individual in the UK. The Coalition Government introduced the Identity Documents Bill, which repealed ID cards and the National Identity Register.
Search our press releases, policy papers and legal interventions to find out more about Liberty’s campaigning work to protect personal privacy.