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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.
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
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Our advice website, Your Rights, has all the information you need about the law and your privacy. | |
A letter to Keith Vaz MP, Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, setting out our position on DNA retention. March 2008, PDF.
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