The Importance of Privacy
What is privacy?
Privacy is the right to protect one’s own information from others or personal history from others. After 12 months of living our lives online, privacy is more important than ever.
Every time we sign up for online services such as emails, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms, we are putting a snapshot of our lives and personal information online for the world to see. This is why it is essential to have the right to have your information kept securely when signing up to these platforms, otherwise this kind of security, everyone would have access to your life.
The Data Protection Act of 2018 establishes strict rules, data protection principles, that have to be followed. For example, that data is used fairly, lawfully and transparently. Furthermore, this enables people to have the rights to be:
· Informed how data is being used
· How personal data is being access
· How the data is erased
· How to stop or restrict the processing of your data etc.
Guidance to Understanding the Possession Action Process - Coronavirus Act 2021
The impact of the Pandemic has been devastating for so many different sectors of society including the rental market, both private and social. Little under a year ago, the Government made changes to the notices periods required for the service of the 2 most important notices used in housing along with significant amendments to possessions proceedings, in particular, delaying evictions throughout the most of 2020 and into 2021.
As the country looks towards relaxing Lockdown restrictions, the Government has published a new guide for landlords and tenants in England and Wales and is focused on landlords letting to tenants on an Assured Shorthold Tenancy or an Assured Tenancy.
The guide will help you to understand what rights and responsibilities of the landlord when needing to use the courts to take possession of a rental property.
Before taking steps to recover possession of a rental property, the landlord or letting agent should consider discussing any underlying problems with the tenant, either directly or through a mediation service, and try to resolve these without recourse to court action.
For the Love of Books - Celebrate World Book Day
Every year, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) organises World Book Day on April 23. The day is intended to promote and spread awareness on reading, copyright issues and publishing.
Whether you read online, find an article in a newspaper or magazine, immerse yourself in a comic, the importance of books and reading has always been something so many people find important. When Amazon launched, it had a devastating impact on bookshops. All of a sudden those delightful little bookshops were no longer and their business had already been damaged by the larger, more corporate type stores.
And then things began to change. There was a backlash and buying books rather than using a tablet or device became a novelty once more. Being read to, reading aloud, feeling the pages, immersing oneself in the escapism created by a favourite author was exciting and our imaginations got back to work through the power of words.
Protecting jobs and livelihoods of the British People - The Budget at a glance
Executive Summary
Rishi Sunak’s budget follows a year of extraordinary economic challenge as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Like that of many other countries, the UK’s economy has been hit hard, with both the direct effects of the virus and the measures necessary to control it leading to an unprecedented fall in output and higher unemployment.
In the face of this threat, the government acted swiftly to provide support to protect businesses, individuals and public services across the UK, adapting its economic response as the pandemic evolved. Thanks to people’s hard work and sacrifice, supported by the success of the initial stages of the vaccine rollout, there is now a path to the reopening of the economy.
The Budget sets out how the government will extend its economic support to reflect the cautious easing of social distancing rules and the reopening of the economy in the government’s roadmap.1 Support in the Budget reflects the easing of restrictions to enable the private sector to bounce back as quickly as possible.
As the economy reopens, the Budget sets out the steps the government is taking to support the recovery, ensuring the economy can build back better, with radical new incentives for business investment and help for businesses to attract the capital, ideas and talent to grow.