Day: July 22, 2009

Privacy is an important right that feeds into other rights; for instance, a lack of privacy can undermine family life, confidential services and a free press. Who would want to tip-off a journalist, reveal sensitive details about oneself, or engage in a controversial political idea or demonstrate in order to change public policy if the state can record you on CCTV, track where you drive with ANPR, or have access to records of who you have contacted by phone, or