A sobering statistic for the New Year is the revelation that the majority of Britons' Facebook photos are taken while…
Irish data protection commissioner tells Facebook to give users greater control of data
The ICO has released new guidance stating that private emails and texts may be subject to Freedom of Information Act…
Organisations should pay more attention to employees' levels of access to sensitive data, says HP
The US Federal Trade Commission warns companies not to compromise privacy when using facial recognition
ICO raids spam text office while survey finds 0.01 percent of people found spam texts useful
A tool intended to flag inappropriate Facebook content was exploited to access CEO Zuckerberg's images
The European Commission is to demand the power to fine companies for data breaches under new reforms
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to one further appeal to the Supreme Court
Commercial firms are watching every move, says WikiLeaks' Spy Files campaign
Carrier IQ software logs every stroke on Android, RIM and Nokia phones, and says it's for your own good
Amazon confirms non- track Kindle Fire policy despite routing browser traffic through cloud servers
Facebook has settled Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive behaviour over privacy settings
Peer to peer search engine may turn government and business efforts to control searches on their heads
Cloud services could lose, in an Olympian contest over privacy between US patriots and EU human rights defenders, says Eric…
Some council staff don't know the difference between internal and external email, the ICO has found
An EC Directive will ban information harvesting on social networking sites for targeted advertising
The Information Commissioner's Office has set up a blog to allow discussion of data protection issues
Companies throughout Europe still struggle to keep up with the growing BYOD trend
Users of the Tor anonymous project can give back to the community by bridging to Amazon's cloud
Websense sees social media identity theft as a growing threat for 2012. Eric Doyle argues that it is a present…
Opting out of Google's Wi-Fi location system for privacy is not easy. Wayne Rash says it should have been an…
Web standards maker W3C proposes a standard for "do not track" features in browsers
Facebook will agree to 20 years of privacy audits to end privacy investigation
Neo-Nazi politicians were exposed in Finland - but was Anonymous really responsible?
Opt-out privacy tools to block online tracking are confusing their users, says CyLab researchers
A British company with links to Wiliam Hague, sold mobile phone tracking software to Iran
Rochdale Council lost 18,000 residents’ data on unencrypted USB stick, the ICO said
BIS has partnered Google, Mastercard and others to help consumers access the data companies hold on them
A group of privacy campaigners is calling for clearer online rights, ahead of today's cyber security conference