Fears of threat to personal information

LEGISLATION enacted by the Government has seriously damaged an individual’s right to keep their personal information private, according to an international civil rights watchdog.

It has also eroded public access to information.

London-based Privacy International (PI) has ranked the country 18th in a league of European Union members in protection of private information a government gathers about citizens, and was especially critical of our data retention legislation, which sees telecom companies holding phone records and tracing our movements for three years.