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PRIVACY
The balance between the privacy of the individual and interests such as national security, crime prevention, and freedom of expression, is far from settled.

The extent of a right to privacy in the UK and its weight in relation to competing values is unclear. Current laws protect some aspects of privacy but disregard others.

Liberty are concerned with how the state, the press and others strike the balance between privacy and other interests.
- Government must review Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
- In a significant judgment today, the European Court of Human Rights found that UK surveillance laws had lacked the necessary clarity and accountability to prevent abuses of power when used to intercept cross-border communications.
- 01.07.2008
- Is Government’s ID card roll out first step toward compulsion?
- The Government’s announcement that ID cards will soon be compulsory for foreign nationals, “high-risk” workers and eventually students is an attempt to soften up the public before making ID cards compulsory for all British nationals, warned Liberty today.
- 06.03.2008
- European Court of Human Rights DNA case will promote national database debate, says Liberty
- Two individuals whose DNA was taken by police and retained on the national DNA database although they were later found to be innocent are to have their case heard by the European Court of Human Rights.
- 28.02.2008

PRIVACY