Privacy
Personal data, breaches, recording, monitoring, and privacy rights.
10 guides
- A company is selling or misusing your data
A company may be misusing your data if it sells, shares, collects, keeps, or uses personal information in ways that conflict with its notices, your consent, or privacy law. The available remedies depend on where you live, the type of information involved, the company’s conduct, and whether the issue concerns marketing,
- Cameras and privacy around your home
If cameras around your home capture neighbors, visitors, public areas, or private conversations, privacy, surveillance, data-protection, and harassment laws may apply. The result often depends on where the camera points, whether it records sound, why the footage is collected, and whether it is shared.
- Children's privacy and apps
Children’s privacy on apps is governed by a mix of privacy, consumer-protection, education, and online-safety laws. The rules often depend on the child’s age, the type of information collected, whether the app is used through a school, and where the child lives.
- Deleting an account and your data for good
Deleting an online account usually stops or limits future use of the service, but it may not immediately remove every copy of information connected with it. Privacy laws in some places provide a right to request deletion, subject to exceptions for legal obligations, security, disputes, records, and public-interest purp
- Online terms, privacy policies and cookie banners
Online terms set the rules for using a website, app, or digital service, while a privacy policy explains how personal information is collected and used. Cookie banners may be needed when a business uses cookies or similar technologies that are not strictly necessary for the service.
- Recording phone calls and conversations legally
Recording a phone call or conversation is often lawful when you are a participant, but the answer depends heavily on where everyone involved is located and whether the recording is private, shared, or published. Consent, reasonable expectations of privacy, data-protection rules, workplace policies, and possible defamat
- Requesting your personal data from a company
Many privacy laws let you ask a company what personal information it holds about you, how it uses that information, and, in some places, receive a copy. The right is often called a subject access request, access request, or data-subject access request, but its scope and exceptions depend on where you live and which law
- Spam calls, texts and robocalls
If a call or message creates an immediate threat or danger, emergency services are the first resource. Spam calls, texts, and robocalls are usually regulated through consent, telemarketing, privacy, and consumer-protection rules, but the details depend on where you live and whether the sender is a business, political g
- Your data was leaked in a breach
A data breach may expose information such as passwords, payment details, health records, identity documents, or private messages. Your options often include securing accounts, monitoring for misuse, reporting the incident, requesting information from the organization, and considering a complaint or legal claim.
- Your employer monitoring your devices and messages
Employers may be allowed to monitor work devices, accounts, networks, and messages, especially when the employer owns or manages them and has given clear notice. The limits depend on the type of monitoring, the content being accessed, your location, applicable workplace laws, and whether you were using a personal devic