The case of Jón Magnússon, a Supreme Court of Iceland barrister and former member of parliament, against the Data Protection Authority of Iceland has been thrown out of the Reykjavík District Court. The given reason was that Jón could not prove that he had a legally significant personal interest in the case. Read the full story

A woman has filed a lawsuit against Starwood Hotels and Resorts after employees at a Finnish property allegedly gave her room key to a drunken stranger. Read the full story

The spin doctor for Denmark’s former tax minister has been reported to the police for allegedly trying to publicise private details of the Prime Minister’s family tax affairs. Read the full story

Neil Kinnock, once the leader of the UK’s Labour Party, is currently celebrating the success of his daughter-in-law, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, as she takes her place as Denmark’s first ever female Prime Minister. However, he is also upset over rumours being circulated that his son Stephen, who has been married to Schmidt since 1996, is gay. Read the full story

A Helsinki hospital has written to almost 200 patients to warn them that their medical records may have been stolen, more than a year after staff and the police first became aware of the data breach. Read the full story

Datacell, a website hosting company in Iceland and Switzerland, says it is under increasing pressure from outside sources including Visa and Mastercard, to stop hosting the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. This despite the fact that it is just one of many companies hosting Wikileaks around the world, and that Datacell has thousands of other customers besides Wikileaks. Read the full story

All of Norway’s government ministers, several thousand state employees, and even the royal family itself have been under illegal surveillance by the country’s Defence Security Services for quite some time. Although the defence agency is responsible for monitoring information security in Norway, they appear to have been doing it illegally. Read the full story

Copenhagen Airport’s customs agents have officially asked the Danish parliament to allow them to begin using high-tech body scanning machines that give a strikingly clear image beneath the clothes. These revealing security scanners are already in use some airports around the world, and are seen as a possible replacement for old-fashioned metal detectors and pat-downs. Read the full story

The parliament of Finland voted to approve a controversial new law that gives employers the right to monitor their employees’ emails if they suspect any kind of deviant or illegal behaviour is going on. Dubbed the “Lex Nokia” law, or the data retention law, the bill was approved by 96 members of parliament, while 56 voted against it. Read the full story

The EU parliament had just passed a proposal containing a number of measures designed to increase competition within the European Union’s telecoms sector, but then dropped the whole package after receiving vocal opposition from all sides of the Swedish political spectrum concerning a section about Internet file sharing. It’s a victory for advocates of a free and open Internet, as well as sustained protection for the privacy of Read the full story