Topic: United Kingdom

A security inquiry was launched on Friday after Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin was seen throwing official documents into a rubbish bin in a London park, including papers about the rendition of terror suspects.Letwin, the minister for government policy, ripped up and ...

Britain's News of the World tabloid apologised in court Tuesday for hacking into the mobile phone messages of actress Sienna Miller and agreed to pay her £100,000 ($165,000, 110,000 euros) in damages and legal costs.The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper said sorry at London's ...

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission plans to call Britain and Denmark to account for dragging their feet on enforcing a controversial new law to protect people's privacy on-line, a spokesman said.The move is a sign of how the war of words ...

WILMINGTON, Delaware/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it belatedly revealed one of the biggest online data breaches ever.In the United States, several members of Congress seized on the breach, in which hackers stole names, ...

Google has agreed to delete private emails and passwords mistakenly picked up from wireless networks in Britain by its Street View cars, the information commissioner said Friday.The US Internet giant has also agreed to improve the way it trains staff on data ...

Google agrees to delete personal data collected in UK street view programBritain's information security watchdog says that Google Inc. has agreed to delete the personal data collected by the company's Street View cars.The Information Commissioner said Friday that the Mountainview, California-based company ...

Google has agreed to wipe the WiFi data it captured in the UK while shooting photography for its Street View service, with the UK deputy information commissioner agreeing that in doing so the search giant will escape fines or further inquiry. Although ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Web search giant Google broke UK law by harvesting emails, Internet addresses and passwords while collecting data for its Street View maps service, Britain's Information Commissioner said on Wednesday.But the body charged with upholding information rights in the UK ...

British authorities say Google breached UK data law, announce audit of company's practicesGoogle violated Britain's data protection laws when its Street View mapping service recorded data from private wireless networks, the country's information commissioner said Wednesday.The American Internet search giant will escape ...

The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner has found that Google violated the country's Data Protection Act when it collected data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks with its Street View vehicles.. As a result of the findings, the ICO said it has requested Google U.K. ...