Different parts of the Middle East have different data protection regimes. Pinsent Masons experts talk through the various emerging data protection laws.

Data protection experts look to France for clues about how new EU rules giving data protection authorities the power to audit processes and premises might work.

New data protection laws will require many more data protection officers, but there are strict rules about who can and who can't do the job.

We put more and more information about ourselves online, and in Europe remain confident that strong data protection laws apply. But whose law, exactly, does control the use of information about us? And how is that question decided?

We look at the European Commission's competition law investigation into Google and its biggest secret – its search algorithms.

We analyse the UK Government's assertion that market competition is enough to head off any problems caused by a lack of net neutrality laws.

We analyse Twitter's decision to start protecting its trade marked terms more aggressively.

We talk to Sherron Watkins, the woman credited with bringing Enron fraudsters to account, about the international reach of a new US law which guarantees payouts to whistleblowers.

We investigate the Government blacklist of items that cannot leave the country without its permission. Seemingly innocuous items are on the list, and it covers emailed plans as well as actual items.

We talk to the man behind a system designed to make sure that hoteliers know when a potential guest has caused upset elsewhere. Is it in line with data protection law?