No-one expected that headline, as a Spanish judge summons Google to court and Germany asks questions over Wi-Fi data gathered by Street View cars

Google is bringing Street View to 20 German cities in 2010 but offering users the opportunity to have images of their homes removed from its database

A German data protection official is accusing Facebook of violating the country's strict privacy laws

Several US states are looking into whether Google broke U.S. laws by collecting data from WiFi networks

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the search engine will cede the data it accidentally collected over WiFi to regulators in Germany, France and Spain.

In a effort to clamp down on illegal filesharing, Internet users in Germany are facing financial penalties if they do not password-protect their wireless networks

CeBit: If it means shorter lines at the supermarket, a quarter of Germans would be happy to have a chip implanted under their skin