
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is urging organisations to put privacy protection at the top of their procurement and development criteria

Additional powers for Information Commissioner also on the agenda for new parliamentary year, but communications database plan is omitted

Companies House must improve security, say MPs

The next Information Commissioner will have to cope with intense scrutiny from the media and politicians

Watch the final video in a two-part Computing roundtable debate on the importance of putting data privacy issues at the heart of your IT plans

Workers happy to steal information that could help if they hear of job cuts

Watch part one of a two-part Computing roundtable debate on the importance of putting data privacy issues at the heart of your IT plans

National infrastructure is stretched and increasingly reliant on IT, says think tank report

Warnings should have been flagged up to avoid the transfer of unencrypted data

Law enforcement agencies will be able to identify guns and criminals across the continent

Dogmatic pursuit of identity cards will benefit nobody

The economic downturn will place extra strain on companies’ IT security systems, warns Rob Rowlingson

Thefts and data losses are spreading throughout the health service

Pay rise is commensurate with increased importance of Information Commissioner, says government

New tools will help law enforcers trace criminal activity

More details will be shared to improve risk management in lending

Spot checks, greater fines and higher salary as data protection becomes paramount

Government keen to emphasise increased importance of data protection

Prison staff data had been transferred to the hard drive for a data recovery exercise

Retailer deploys 'tokenisation' middleware

The pan-European fight against organised crime is undermined by lax data sharing arrangements; and Cotton Traders enhances its credit card protection

Safeguarding privacy requires a good understanding of both technology and human psychology, says Nigel Jones

Worm wriggles into IT systems and does a bit of networking

Average individual loss reaches £14,500 per incident

Advanced encryption techniques protect sensitive data