UK privacy laws are fundamentally flawed, report says

August 17, 2011 Source: Out-Law.com
UK laws fail to uphold individuals' privacy rights and must be reformed, a report commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said.

Individuals' right to privacy is guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights and in UK law by the Human Rights Act.

UK laws have a "weak, fractured and piecemeal approach to privacy", researchers Charles Raab and Benjamin Goold said in the EHRC-commissioned report. Growing public and private sector demand for personal information is putting citizens' rights at risk, they said.

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