📘 Easy Read: Rights – Privacy, Data Protection, and Freedom

 

🔒 What is Privacy?

• Privacy means keeping your personal life and information safe.

• Everyone has the right to choose who knows their information.

🗂️ What is Data Protection?

• Data protection is about how organisations keep your records safe.

• This includes:

  • Medical records

  • School or work records

  • Personal details (address, phone, bank info)

🌍 UK Laws

• Data Protection Act (2018) and GDPR: Protect how personal information is used.

• Human Rights Act (1998): Right to privacy and family life.

• Equality Act (2010): Stops unfair treatment of disabled people, people with mental health conditions, or other differences.

🌎 USA Laws

• HIPAA (1996): Protects health and medical information.

• ADA (1990): Protects people with disabilities.

• Civil Rights Act (1964): Protects people from discrimination.

✅ Why These Rights Matter

• They protect people’s dignity, safety, and freedom.

• They make sure people with disabilities, mental health conditions, or long-term illnesses are treated fairly.

• They stop private information from being misused.

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📝 Quiz: Privacy, Data Protection, and Freedom

Q1. What does privacy mean?
a) Sharing all your information with everyone
b) Keeping your personal life and information safe
c) Only for doctors

Q2. What does data protection do?
a) Keeps records safe
b) Deletes all information
c) Makes life harder

Q3. In the UK, which law protects personal information?
a) Data Protection Act (2018)
b) Equality Act (2010)
c) Civil Rights Act (1964)

Q4. In the USA, which law protects health information?
a) ADA
b) HIPAA
c) GDPR

Q5. Why are these rights important?
a) To punish people
b) To protect dignity, safety, and fairness
c) To make work longer