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Citation: UK Labour Law Blog: Surveillance and working from home during covid-19

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The UK Labour Law Blog has an excellent piece examining how surveillance of employees in the workplace conflicts with the right to privacy in the covid work from home environment.

Phillipa Collins, Lecturer of Law at the University of Exeter, examines the privacy issues bought into play by increased working for home arrangements where the traditionally private space of the home meets working life.

Cited with compliments: (P Collins, ‘The Right to Privacy, Surveillance-by-Software and the “Home-Workplace”’, UK Labour Law Blog, 3 September 2020, available at https://uklabourlawblog.com)

Big brother is watching you, in compliance with the European Convention of Human Rights

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Revisiting the case of Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom

The operation of the UK’s surveillance services, MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the Metropolitan Police Service and their interaction with human rights (“Convention rights”) have historically been obscure to safeguard the interests of national security. The specifics of policy and practices when conducting national surveillance and its interaction with the private lives citizens have only come to light since the whistleblowing of Edward Snowden in 2013, catalyzing closer scrutiny of their potential to impinge upon the democratic freedoms.

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A brief introduction to the concept of privacy under English Law – Parts I, II & III

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Below we present a compiled summary of our highly popular introduction to the concept of privacy under English Law, this covers early developments, the integration of private individuals rights,  the widening of the concept and early 21st Century data protection issues:  Continue reading →

Citation: Article 8 and the “outside world”: privacy, reputation and employment – Hugh Tomlinson QC

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An excellent and highly insightful piece written by Hugh Tomlinson QC on the application of the Article 8 right to privacy and a reconciliation with domestic law.

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The Article 8 right to respect for private life has many facets and has often seemed in danger of uncontrolled expansion.  The Court of Human Rights has often noted that private life is “not susceptible to exhaustive definition”, embracing “multiple aspects of the person’s physical and social identity”. 

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