Online retailers must now use an additional layer of security to protect credit cards from fraud, but experts have said that many card processors have missed last week's industry-set deadline.

Scots face up to 10 years in jail for sending text messages or emails with sexual content. Scotland's just-published Sexual Offences Bill contains stiff penalties for any sexual messages whose intent is to humiliate the recipient.

A firm of stockbrokers has been fined for failing to adequately protect its customers from the risk of identity fraud. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said its mistakes included failing to manage the risk of staff using Instant Messaging and web-based email.

A man has been found liable for stealing a company's website design in order to then pursue that same company's customers

The number of people prepared to give away their computer passwords on the street has fallen by 67% since last year, according to a survey of London office workers

Microsoft has proposed a five-tiered privacy plan that it believes should underpin online advertising

The Department of Health is not dealing with freedom of information (FOI) requests properly because of a lack of staff, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.

European civil liberties groups have lodged an objection to the EU's Data Retention Directive with the European Court of Justice, claiming that the Directive breaches a fundamental right to privacy guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights.

Plans to jail personal data thieves have been shelved due to a surprise amendment to a proposed new law.