My Identity Protector 1.0

Privacy organisations have spoken out against Google's recent move to add public data on the social network Google Plus to its search engine results page. The search giant announced this move earlier this week, giving it the...

The UK's leading privacy watchdog came under fire in the House of Commons yesterday as MPs lined up to condemn its lack of action over illegal Wi-fi data collection by Google Street View cars. The Information Commissioner's...

The Internet has changed the information landscape and, increasingly, individual users are finding there's no place to hide on the web - or on the street, come to that, as Google's Street View cars may come and sniff you out...

The world's largest social networking website, Facebook, might have changed its privacy settings but this doesn't seem to be enough to calm down privacy campaigners worldwide. According to the Guardian, Privacy International said...

Social network Facebook has bowed to public pressure, simplifying its controversial privacy settings into a single page.Admitting that the site's user privacy settings had "gotten complex", Facebook CEO and founder Mark...

The Conservative Party has said that it will scrap some Government databases and enshrine a right to privacy in legislation if it is elected to Government next year. It also said it will give the Information Commissioner new...

A recent report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner, compiled by Sir Paul Kennedy has stated that one in every 78 adults in UK are under surveillance and nearly 1400 requests are made by government agencies...

Street View, Google's equivalent to an open circuit television system, does not constitute a threat to personal privacy according to the Information Commissioner's Office. According to the Guardian, the ICO, which is UK's...

Europe's privacy watchdogs have reiterated their demand for a data breach notification law and have said that a proposed new clause in an EU Directive could threaten computer users' privacy.The Article 29 Working Party is a...

A Court of Appeal ruling in Rowling's favour has reinforced the circumstances in which people are entitled to the protection of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), said Rosemary Jay, head of the...

Organisations must consider the impact on individuals’ privacy before developing new IT systems or changing the way they handle personal information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will urge today.At a conference on...

Online watchdog Moveon.org argues that Facebook's Beacon or Social Ads ad program, which seamlessly and automatically sends messages to friends and acquaintances, when a user buys an item from a partner website, violates personal...

EDITORIAL: Barely a day goes by without Google or Microsoft or some other company with vast vaults of our personal data tweaking its privacy policy.These are companies with so much personal information about us that they see into...

Local authorities should conduct a risk assessment before sharing personal data with other public bodies. Sharing can be legitimate, but only when the benefits and risks have been weighed up, the Information Commissioner has...

The way in which online privacy is perceived in Japan compared to Britain is to be investigated for the first time in a research study led by De Montfort University Leicester (DMU). The research may help British businesses and...