Your privacy matters, and you have the power to protect it effectively. Our expert advice helps you understand your legal rights and navigate everything from workplace situations to internet security with confidence. Your Privacy is here to help.
Try our 2 free tools including the Image and Photo Use Rights Checker (UK) and Personal Privacy Risk Audit to get instant personalised help.
Your Rights to 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?
Whether someone can legally use your photo on their website without your permission under UK data protection law.
Does Neighbour's Camera Contravene Privacy Rights?
Your neighbour can legally install a camera to protect their property, but it breaks the law if it deliberately records you or invades your privacy.
Image and Photo Use Rights Checker (UK) (Free Tool)
Someone has used your photo (or your child's) on a website, social media or marketing and you are not sure what your rights are. Answer a few questions and we will explain the position and what to do.
Personal Privacy Risk Audit (Free Tool)
Identify privacy vulnerabilities across your digital and physical life.
Subject Access Request Refused: What Companies Can Legally Withhold
You sent a Subject Access Request to a company. They were supposed to provide a copy of your personal data. Instead, you have received a refusal, a heavily
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
Adjust your Facebook privacy settings to control who sees your personal information and keep your account secure.
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 data through their own mistakes, not yours, and it's costing them millions in fines.
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 fraudulently used while she was abroad and what she did to stop it.