Security concerns prohibit use of the iPhone personal assistant

The long-delayed Department of Health information strategy plans to release anonymised patient data to researchers, industry and the public

A massive data breach in the US state of Utah was caused by a series of configuration mistakes during an upgrade that left a server wide open to attackers

The California class action lawsuit against Facebook arrives as a German official expresses concerns about the company's privacy approach

Twitter has joined the privacy drive after announcing its support for the "Do Not Track" initiative

The cookie law is crazy, as the government has shown by saying it hasn't bothered to get compliant, argues Tom Brewster

Google is to meet with the French privacy watchdog next week over its controversial new user privacy policy

Paranoid citizens and secret agents rejoice - you can destroy your data

Channel 4 documentary finds 25 confidentiality breaches per week at the Department for Work and Pensions

Council fined after second offence in two years, but further loss prevented by laptop encryption