EBay does not have to pre-screen its auctions for counterfeits of trade marked goods, a US court has ruled in a case that could have threatened the entire business model of the online auction site

Europe's highest court could strengthen the rights of database creators to protect their work. One of the European Court of Justice's Advocates General has issued an opinion backing a German University's right to stop others using information it compiled.

The Information Commissioner has repeated his call for more powers to protect personal data and has said that local authorities should not be selling the electoral roll to marketers.

The body in charge of the .uk internet domain has announced changes to its dispute resolution policies that will make it cheaper to win unopposed disputes but will not address the high cost of preparing cases.

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) will attempt to clear up uncertainty and doubt about an exception to patent law for researchers, moving to end a lack of clarity about which acts are illegal and which are allowed.

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.

A link can be established between two similar trade marks even if they have been registered for completely different goods and services, one of the European Union's Advocates General has said.

Users of YouTube will have their access details handed over to entertainment giant Viacom and the English football Premier League after a US judge ordered the disclosure of a 12 terabyte database.

Google has added a link to its privacy policy from its sparse front page, bowing to pressure from privacy activists.

UPDATED: A privacy pressure group has told Google that its Street View photography service might break the law. But the company says that its technical measures will safeguard people's privacy.

Google's Street View photography cars have been spotted on the streets of London. The company started its first European data gathering for the service in April in Italy.

A London court has come down in favour of a games publisher in four cases in which it claimed that the users had been illegally downloading and sharing computer games on the internet.

Virgin Media misled customers by suggesting they could download television shows quickly using its broadband internet when in fact many peak time users' connections would be slowed down when trying to do so, the UK's advertising regulator has said

Belgian newspaper lobby group Copiepresse has had its copyright infringement case against the European Commission thrown out of a Belgian court, but says that it will re-submit the case to a civil court

A newspaper has been censured for placing video content on its website which invaded a woman's privacy by showing the inside of her home

The UK Government's surveillance practices violate the privacy rights of UK and foreign citizens, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled

Nearly two out of three people working in marketing have been part of an exercise in which customers' data has been lost or stolen in the last two years alone, a study has found

A direct mailing and internet banner ad that poked fun at financial software giant Sage has been banned by the UK's advertising regulator.