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What Are Your Rights Regarding Email Privacy In The Workplace?
Your employer can monitor your work emails, but you have some legal right to privacy for personal messages sent during work hours.
Do They Have the Right to Use My Photo on Website?
Your employer needs your permission before posting your photo online, even if they took it for ID purposes.
Can Comments Made in Counselling Be Added to Medical Record?
Your counsellor can't share what you say in sessions with your GP unless you've agreed to it, and you can complain if they do.
Telephone Monitoring at Work
Your employer can legally monitor your work calls in the UK, but you should know how it works and what rights you actually have.
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How to Choose and Protect Your Passwords
Set strong passwords that are easy for you to remember but hard for hackers to crack, and keep your accounts secure.
Big Business and Wikileaks
How Wikileaks has exposed financial secrets that major corporations and wealthy individuals would rather keep hidden.
Data Leaks: Are IT Department to Blame?
IT staff are most likely to deliberately leak company data, often on Tuesdays and usually via laptops or removable drives.
Facebook Security Tips to Keep Your Details Private
Stop guessing about Facebook privacy and take control of your account settings with these practical steps.
What is Wikileaks?
Wikileaks is a whistleblowing site that publishes leaked government and corporate documents, operating since 2006 despite controversy.
Banks and Your Data: Why it's Still Getting Lost
Banks keep losing your personal data due to their own security failures and human mistakes, not yours.
Online Dating Sites and Data Breaches
Popular dating sites like eHarmony have suffered data breaches, exposing user passwords and personal information to hackers.
The True Cost of Cyber Crime
Cyber crime costs the UK £27bn yearly, but the real figure is likely far higher because most attacks go unreported.
My Credit Card Details Were Stolen: A Case Study
How one woman's credit card was used by scammers while she was on holiday and what happened next.
What is RIPA?
RIPA is UK legislation that regulates how government bodies and councils conduct surveillance and investigations while respecting human rights.
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