The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen's personal data

Europe's highest court could strengthen the rights of database creators to protect their work. One of the European Court of Justice's Advocates General has issued an opinion backing a German University's right to stop others using information it compiled.

UPDATED: A privacy pressure group has told Google that its Street View photography service might break the law. But the company says that its technical measures will safeguard people's privacy.

A Parliamentary committee has called on the Government to be more transparent about its uses of personal data and to adopt "a principle of data minimisation

An ex-employee of recruitment firm Hays has been ordered to disclose details of his profile at social networking site LinkedIn

The Information Commissioner’s Office has today published new guidance to help organisations comply with the Data Protection Act when providing information about their employees under TUPE, the law that protects staff when a business is transferred.

Two British newspaper publishers have been fined in French courts because they violated French privacy laws.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has criticised proposals to build one Government-owned database to hold a log of phone calls, email and internet use in the UK. The ICO has said that the move would be unjustified.

The outgoing Italian government put all the country's citizens at risk of identity theft and physical attacks when it published the names, incomes and amounts of tax paid by every citizen

The Information Commissioner has been given the ability to fine organisations if their operational procedures cause a gross breach of data protection principles.