Mother of All Databases Could Become Big Brother Nightmare, says UK Government Watchdog

"We've been tidying up a little, making our privacy policies and terms more consistent, easier to read and easier to understand. You see while privacy policies, ours included, may not be the most popular read on the Internet, we...

A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for...

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...

Google, Microsoft, eBay, telecoms companies and civil liberties groups in the US have called on the US government to update electronic privacy laws to take account of the internet and protect citizens from state snooping. The...

Europe's privacy watchdogs have outlined exactly what the meanings are of the two terms on which the whole EU Data Protection Directive hangs. It said that organisations need more guidance now because of the complexity of modern...

A secret global negotiation over how to stop individuals breaking copyright law threatens to undermine people's rights to privacy and to the protection of their personal data, according to the European Union's privacy...

The privacy regulator for European Union bodies will increase the number of on-the-spot checks of EU bodies and agencies to ensure that they are complying with data protection law, it has said.The European Data Protection...

The Data Protection Directive is old-fashioned and out of date, a report published by the UK's privacy regulator the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said. Commissioner Richard Thomas said that the European Union must...

The Government has shelved plans to allow Government departments to share citizens' personal information with each other and with the private sector. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said that the u-turn was a response to...

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...

The Government's controversial plans to share personal data between departments and with the private sector are "too wide" and the safeguards "weak" according to privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).The...

BT has admitted to online UK tech site The Register that it has secretly used its own customers' data to test the controversial Phorm's advertising technology in June 2007 and strongly denied any wrongdoings when customers...

European police forces will have easier access to each others' information on criminals and suspects after ministers agreed a new data swap system. But Europe's data protection chief told OUT-LAW that his concerns over the system...

The Government is not serious enough about protecting citizens' data when it comes to pan-European data sharing schemes, a parliamentary committee warned today. The Government should back the adoption of a sidelined data...

The French data protection authority has fined a subsidiary of US firm Tyco Healthcare over the transfer of employee information across borders and inadequate data safeguards. Tyco Healthcare France was fined €30,000.It is...