The Dutch Data Protection Authority received 500 phone calls over the last year and a half about privacy in education. By coincidence, parents find out that information about their children has been shared with other...

Blood samples of newborns collected in Czech hospitals over several decades must be destroyed if they have been stored for more than five years.

A data transfer pact between the EU and US needs "significant improvements," said European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli. The agreement, known as the EU-US Privacy Shield, is designed to protect EU...

Following a judgment in a preliminary reference procedure before the Court of Justice of the EU, the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Dutch Council of State - the highest Dutch administrative court - has ...

The ruling of a Polish regional court sets the procedure for acquiring IP addresses and other data of Polish Internet users who comment on websites.

A new animated video explains how to surf the web anonymously.

The Strasbourg court upholds the freedom of speech of tabloids after they published a story suggesting the Prince of Monaco had fathered a child out of wedlock.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), based in Washington, D.C., filed a third-party intervention with the European Court of Human Rights in a case about mass surveillance and transatlantic co-operation...

Churches and other faith-based societies in the Netherlands are used to receiving housing data, especially new addresses, of citizens who were registered with a church group, usually through Stichting Interkerkelijke...

The former head of MI5, Baron Evans of Weardale, has warned that private firms are compiling detailed personal profiles of ordinary citizens using methods that are "just as intrusive" as those deployed by Britain’s...