Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger revealed today that the paper agreed to the destruction of computer hard drives containing information from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden following pressure from the UK authorities. But he said the act was largely symbolic because The Guardian will continue to report on the information from overseas. The revelation comes after the partner of Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald was detained and questioned for nine hours at Heathrow airport on Sunday.

Search engine company Google told the UK High Court that it is not bound by UK privacy laws as it was a US company, after it was accused by privacy campaigners of illegally tracking users online. A group of Britons is planning to take legal action over the way it skirted settings on the iPhone to collect their personal information. The company has told the UK High Court that it is not subject to UK privacy laws because it is a US company.

The UK's highest-selling regional evening newspaper has launched a bid to digitise its archive of deteriorating photographs dating back more than a century. Wolverhampton's Express & Star has called on readers to write letters of support to help secure Heritage Lottery funding for the three-year project. The estimated 750,000 photographs are currently filed in a dark room. The task of digitisation will involve individually scanning the original photographs along with their corresponding captions.

Global internet traffic fell 40% on Saturday (August 17) as Google services suffered from a four-minute black out. Google is yet to speak out about the reasons behind the outage, which meant that all of its services, from Google Search, Gmail and YouTube stopped working for between one and five minutes around the world. The significant 40% drop in internet traffic was noted by web analytics firm GoSquared, which was followed by a rise in page views after Google was back up and running again.

Defence barrister Mark McDonald said that messages written online are being used increasingly by the Crown Prosecution Service and police. His comments come after an American teenager had a manslaughter charge upgraded to murder, partly because he had boasted about speeding on Twitter, according to prosecutors. McDonald told Metro: "There can be naivety, in that people believe they can say things on social media and it won't be used against them."

Digital has changed the way the marketing sector operates. Yet the speed at which it has impacted on the business has left recruiters struggling to keep up. As companies demand more and more specific digital experience and the skills gap widens, Angela Haggerty takes a look at why the digital jobs market is lagging behind and what jobseekers can do to improve their offering.

A teenager in Fife, Scotland has reportedly killed himself upon being blackmailed online, while the main cause of the suicide is being investigated by the Scotland police. According to reports, the 17-year-old Daniel Perry from Dunfermline was trapped in online webcam conversations via Skype with someone he considered was a girl of the same age group. Police also reported that blackmailers had threatened to reveal web conversations to Daniel's family unless he deposited money into a bank account.

It's evidence if ever it was needed that cute animals are an adorably good marketing ploy. The creatives from BBH have helped encourage more than 400,000 page views the Guardian's running hub since it launched last week and the campaign will continue until the end of September.

The Daily Mail claims that Sonia Pritchard altered her husband Mark's Wikipedia page to accuse him of 'abandoning her by text message after 16 years of marriage'. The damaging entry was then deleted and replaced by an alternative version of events. The Mail says it has traced most of the alterations back to computers at the Houses of Parliament, where the pair both work.

About 72% of UK citizens agree that social media sites like Twitter should allow permission for usage only if people provide a fully verified name and address. While 14% oppose and equal percentage were unsure, about 82% of those aged 60 or over are not in favour of social media anonymity and 54% of 18-25 year olds also agree with the elders. This study by YouGov comes on the heels of a series of cases of social media abuse, including abusive Twitter messages being sent to high-profile women.