Tuesday, June 17, 2014

"Google struggles to avoid European privacy rules" (no kidding!)

Google is wriggling desperately to escape new European privacy rules which could force it to take some responsibility for what information it republishes in response to a given search - in particular a search of someone's name.

The European Parliament passed a new draft data protection bill in March, one that the EU's press office proudly proclaimed was "irreversible". But it might not be, if Google gets its way. The bill is still open to amendments - and there's one amendment in particular that the Californian advertising giant would urgently like to add.

read full article at The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/17/for_mon_how_google_plans_to_torpedo_your_privacy_rights/


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