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In Touch: Who Can Read Your Mail?

Who Can Read Your Mail?

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Does the data protection act stop volunteers from reading blind people's personal letters?

Are you restricted to the dog-friendly part of the pub if you own a guide dog? And, who can legally read your post to you under the data protection laws?

Last week we reported on the concerns of some listeners that changes to the software Apple uses on its iphones and macs could compromise their privacy. We reported that by showing that a screen-reader was being used on a website, it could reveal that the person browsing was visually impaired. They'd released scant information about this new feature at the time, until the day after our broadcast. They then published a blog, with more details clarifying the new feature was not automatically enabled. Ben Mustill-Rose updates us on this development.

Is reading someone's personal mail for them a data breach? Do you have to stay in a dog-friendly area in a pub if you are a guide dog owner? We clear up some legal misnomers with Cloisters barrister Catherine Casserley. And Yuen Har Tse who successfully won a discrimination case against Aviva tells us why winning the case isn't exactly a straightforward victory.

Presenter: Peter White 
Producer: Lee Kumutat

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