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- France gives Google three months to come clean on privacy
The French government is getting tired of waiting for Google to answer questions about its privacy practices. Bloomberg reports that France’s National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties has given Google “three months to amend its policy regarding Internet users’ data to avoid fines, and said five other European countries will follow suit by the end of July.” In particular, the ...
June 20, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News - With Gulliver Asleep, The Lilliputians Are Almost Done Smothering The U.S. Economy
Jonathan Swift’s classic novel Gulliver’s Travels—and in particular the novel’s first section in which the tiny Lilliputians succeeded in immobilizing Gulliver by binding him with thousands of their tiny, threadlike ropes—serves as a literary metaphor for today’s American economy. While our friends on the left may complain that it is hyperbolic and chauvinistic to describe the American economy ...
June 20, 2013 - Forbes - German insurance claims for flood damage may be nearly $8 billion: AIR
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Insurance claims for flood damage in Germany may be as much as 6 billion euros ($8 billion), catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide said on Thursday, after the worst flooding in a decade. Heavy rainfall in late May and early June drenched Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic in particular, causing widespread flooding, and also affected Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia and ...
June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News