On January 11, 2011, Michelle O’Neill, U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, held a briefing on her November 2010 meetings in Brussels with European data protection authorities. She discussed a data protection and privacy forum that was convened in November at which she met with several high-level European regulators, including Jacob…
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EU: Mosley takes privacy legal battle to Europe
Andy McSmith reports: Max Mosley, the former president of Formula One, was in a European court yesterday hoping to secure a new law barring newspapers from publishing details of people’s private lives without forewarning. Mr Mosley is asking the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to make it illegal for a newspaper to publish…
Google Analytics targeted by data protection officials
German web companies could face hefty fines for using Google’s online metrics service after data protection officials broke off talks with the US internet giant this week and threatened to pursue a precedent-setting court case. “Unfortunately we have come to the conclusion that Google has not complied with our data protection demands,” Johannes Caspar, commissioner…
Bhutan: Cops raid homes to stub out smoking
A Reuters report indicates that your home is not exactly your castle in Bhutan: Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honour a promise to become the world’s first smoke-free nation. Buddhist Bhutan, where smoking is considered…