The Dutch government is to “basically [...] exclude” U.S. cloud providers from government IT contracts amid concerns of the reach of the Patriot Act in Europe. To prevent sensitive citizen data from being compromised by U.S. authorities, the move to bar U.S. companies from providing cloud-bas... Read more...
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04/08/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
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Between the transposing of the EU Data Protection Directive in 1998 and the terrorist attacks in New York in September 2001, trade relations between the United States and the European Union were mutual, bilateral and safe. The arrangement between the U.S. and the EU — for which both contine... Read more...
Twitter is at the center of a row over super-injunctions — gagging orders which prevent a person from speaking about something — because users are tweeting information considered confidential by British courts. A British football player (that’s “soccer player” for the readers ac... Read more...
The European Union has adopted a regulation that will ban the construction of ordinary family houses, starting from 2020. Only the so-called passive houses will be allowed: iDNES.CZ (autom. transl. into EN), EU Business, EU Parliament, Euractiv, Panda.ORG, The Energy Collective; Preliminary ... Read more...
Canada launched a full-court press against the idea of a global bank tax Tuesday, as the prime minister and four senior cabinet members came out strongly against a proposal that's gathering global steam Prime Minister Stephen Harper said a proposed international bank tax would unfairly penalize w... Read more...
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10/05/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Illuminati,
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The International Monetary Fund on Sunday approved a 30 billion euro ($38.6 billion) loan for Greece as part of a larger European Union-led effort to help ease the country's economic crisis. The three-year deal makes about 5.5 billion euros (US $7 billion) immediately available to Greece's battered... Read more...