Reuters reports: The Swiss government will probably have to turn to parliament to resolve a legal impasse threatening a deal struck with the U.S. to hand over data from UBS clients, a minister was quoted as saying. The Swiss government had raised the option of parliament retroactively approving the deal, involving UBS clients suspected of…
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EU lawmakers reject bank data deal with US
Aoife White of the Associated Press reports: The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers, allegedly to track funds supporting terror groups. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament’s president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly…
AU: Google baulks at Conroy’s call to censor YouTube
Asher Moses reports: Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” (RC) content rules. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google’s censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally….
Social networking sites failing to hide kids’ details, finds European Commission
The Commission analysed the policies of 22 social networking sites in a study aimed at finding out how well-protected under-18s were when using them as part of a campaign to urge young people to protect their information online. It said that just 40% of the sites they examined had default settings which hid the personal…