The Top Gear presenter has threatened to "kill" the hackers who accessed his Twitter account, paraphrasing Liam Neeson's character in Taken. He promised to hunt down the people who hacked him on Monday. "I have been hacked by spammers," he tweeted. "Luckily I have acquired a special set of skills over many years. I will find them. And I will kill them. "Unlike some people, I WILL find who hacked my account. And I will visit them."

Web editors beware - the long-awaited crackdown on illegal cookies on websites has begun. The Information Commission has written to more than 100 sites after receiving complaints from the public. Most complaints were about sites that use implied consent mechanisms, rather than provide a tick-box which give users the opportunity to opt out of receiving cookies. There were other complaints about lack of cookie information and over sites that automatically place cookies in users' browsers as soon as they land on a site.

The European Commission's proposal to allow internet users to have the 'right to be forgotten' has caused a stir in the data community with companies like Google and Facebook aggressively lobbying the European Parliament about the Commission's proposal. Internet users would have the choice to become "invisible" online and erase their digital footprint. However, the use of personal data is used across numerous industries and could shake up the way businesses in Europe operate.

While tech giant Apple is the world's most valuable brand, it is car manufacturer Ferrari that takes the title for the world's most powerful brand. That's according to brand valuation firm Brand Finance, cited by freshbusinessthinking.com, which analyses the performance of leading brands across all major business sectors. Despite having a 'much smaller enterprise value' than any other brands in Brand Finance's Global 500 report, Ferrari boasted the best 'financial metrics'.

The web giant introduced a new privacy policy last March that gave it power to merge data from it various websites to create a master profile of each individual's interests, to help target advertising. In October European regulators, including Britain's Information Commissioner and led by France's CNIL, gave Google four months reverse the changes or face legal action. On Monday they said "no answer has been given". The group of regulators, coordinating their response via the EU, pledged to take "repressive action" to break the impasse.

Michael Gove's Department for Education has taken steps to stop the Twitter feed @toryeducation - to which his own advisers have contributed - from issuing any more abuse against political opponents, critics and journalists. Senior government sources said the department had acted to ensure those contributing to the feed will now put out information in a neutral way and free of its previously abusive tone. The move amounts to an admission that people within government have been involved in operating a propaganda feed.

As preparations step-up for the launch of a new super-fast 4G mobile broadband signal across Britain later this year, reports have suggested that it could disrupt television reception for 2.3 million households. While millions could see TV signal interference, some 40,000 homes could lose their signal altogether. Although there have been no public warnings, the problems have arisen amid confusion as the 4G spectrum is close in range to the band used by millions of customers of Freeview.

Each video message can be up to three minutes long and the feature can be opted through 'plus' button in Skype apps on supported systems Skype has started trialling a video messaging service that allows users to send recorded video messages to their friends which will play when they come online. Users with the latest version of Skype for Mac, Android or iOS can currently send video messages, while Skype users on other platforms are being offered 20 free messages over the next three months to trial the new service.

According to the National Union of Journalists, the "overwhelming majority" of the BBC's 4,000-plus NUJ members are taking part in the action, which saw radio and television schedules disrupted yesterday. According to the NUJ picket lines have been set up in London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Belfast among other places. BBC staff in other countries have also joined in the strike and a picket line has been set up in Turkey.

Google Play store provided application developers with users' personal details including names and email addresses. An Australian app developer has claimed that he has access to the personal information of users who download his Android app through the Google Play store. App buyers were not informed that their personal information was being shared with third party app developers. This potentially violates Google's 2011 privacy settlement as well as its existing policies for its app store and payment service.