EU Commission Outlines Plans To Strengthen Privacy Law

Europeans who use US based cloud computing services can have their personal data accessed by US authorities without their knowledge. According to an article on The Register, Europe based users who access cloud computing services...

Yahoo has begun trialling a new transparent advertising platform in Europe, which will not only let consumers decide the type of ads they want to see, but also give information on the advertisers and the reasons why the user was...

A business lobby led by internet advertisers and search engines has denounced a political initiative that would curb their efforts to capture people on database profiles. New rules to prevent industry and government mistreating...

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 political godfather of the UK's Identity Card Scheme has declared a "partial conversion" from latter-day Big Brother to privacy campaigner. David Blunkett, the Labour MP who earned his authoritarian stripes as Home Secretary...

The Government plans to keep DNA profiles of people not convicted of any crime for up to 12 years in a move critics claim does not fully implement a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).The case was brought by...

Google's controversial Street View project was given the all clear by the Information Commissioner's Office, UK's body in charge of making sure that Brits privacy are being respected. Some critics, including UK Rights Group...

Street View allows users of Google's maps to view 360 degree photographs of streetscapes in towns and cities that have been catalogued by Google cameras. The company's distinctive cars with cameras attached were spotted on the...

Addressing a roundtable on digital issues in London on Friday, European Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva said that while e-commerce is succeeding at national level, cross-border e-commerce is failing to keep pace. The...

UK groups the Open Rights Group (ORG), Statewatch and Privacy International, amongst 40 others, have submitted their arguments in support of Ireland's ongoing case to have the Directive repealed.Ireland supports the aims of the...

The set of rules which Google proposed as the foundation for a global privacy standard are inadequate, a privacy law expert has said. The rules are not specific enough to operate as a global standard, said the expert.Last month...

Europe's top privacy official says that the European Union is weakening a planned privacy protection in order to secure agreement for the proposal. He says that the agreement threatens to reduce privacy protection in Europe.Peter...

Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervison (EDPS), has made his warnings in relation to the Data Protection Framework Decision (DPFD), a proposed basis for police data sharing across Europe.In 2005 the European Union...

The world's most developed economies will co-operate to uphold privacy laws in the face of increasing amounts of cross border data transfer. The member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

UK citizens are “walking like sheep, bleating,” into a total surveillance society, Bob Ayers, of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) warned today at the 19th Annual Conference of FIRST, the Forum of...