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Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 Mark D. Kotwick	Foreign Privacy Laws and the Cross Border Transfer of Information In an increasingly global financial world, it's helpful to have some basic knowledge about the rules and regs regarding international privacy law.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	The EU Officially Reveals Its Plan To Reduce Silicon Valley's Power In Europe As part of its ongoing effort to reposition its economy, the European Union just formally unveiled plans to unify its fractured markets and take a more aggressive stance toward U.S. tech companies.
InternetNews May 13, 2010	Facebook Confirms All-Hands Privacy Meeting Under increasing pressure from users, privacy advocates and government officials, Facebook is planning to take up the issue at a company-wide meeting.
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Fast Company David Lumb	Europe Unveils Strategy To (Finally) Compete With U.S. Tech Titans After multiple lawsuits aimed at U.S. tech titans, the European Union is proposing a unified digital marketplace for companies in all 28 member states that would compete with the likes of Facebook and Google.
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InternetNews December 3, 2009 David Needle	EFF Sues Feds Over Social Network Surveillance The online rights organization wants the government to release records of its surveillance of social networking sites.
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Fast Company David Lumb	Online Privacy As Human Right? Internet Advocacy Group Pushes For New Standards The Global Commission on Internet Governance, a digital security advocacy group, met in the Hague early this morning to hammer home a citizens-first agenda for Internet privacy.
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InternetNews June 8, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Microsoft's EU Appeal: 'Innovation Undermined' Redmond's quest to undo the EU's $613 million fine and penalties officially begins.
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InternetNews November 18, 2009	Facebook Adopts Simplified Privacy Policy Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant's policies.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	Facebook Rejiggers Privacy Rules Following Probe Social-networking giant lives up to its agreement with Canadian authorities and now seeks comment from users.
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InternetNews December 22, 2004 Erin Joyce	Microsoft To Unbundle Media Player by January Microsoft said it plans to offer a version of Windows in European markets with its media player stripped out by January, following a European court ruling that upheld antitrust penalties against the company.
InternetNews June 25, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Looks to Stay EU's Hand Redmond files a formal request to stay the EU order to unbundle Windows and Windows Media Player.
InternetNews July 27, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Set with Day in Court An EU appeals court will hear its request to suspend penalties in its antitrust judgment against the software vendor.
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004	Another Battle Over European Union Rules The European Commission put its credibility on the line on Jan. 13 when it asked the European Court of Justice to review the controversial November decision by European Union Finance Ministers not to punish France and Germany for breaking the EU's financial regulations.
InternetNews February 17, 2009 David Needle	Facebook Scrambles to Nip Privacy Controversy Despite changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists users own and control their own information.
Search Engine Watch June 15, 2010 Matthew Ncube	'Facebook Privacy' Searches Plummet Keyword data indicates searchers have moved on or lost interest after outcries over Facebook's policy privacy and some online people publicly deleted (or vowed to delete) their accounts.
Fast Company David Lumb	The European Union Is Preparing To Sue Google, And It Wants A Fight As the The Wall Street Journal reports, Margrethe Vestager wants a landmark case that will set precedent for how tech mega corporations operate in the EU.
InternetNews January 29, 2010	Europe Poised for Online Privacy Push EU commissioner outlines plans to update Europe's privacy laws to keep pace with the digital age.
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 Douglas MacMillan	Facebook's Washington Problem Facebook is facing a privacy backlash that could prompt congressional hearings.
InternetNews November 30, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	Facebook Backpedals on Beacon Will Facebook's changes to its controversial advertising platform be enough to quiet the uproar over the alleged privacy violations?
InternetNews March 29, 2006 Ed Sutherland	EU to Microsoft: Unbundle or Else European regulators are warning Microsoft to remove several features from the upcoming Windows Vista operating system or face being barred from the European market.
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InternetNews February 18, 2009 Judy Mottl	Facebook Backtracks on TOS Policy Changes Facebook rethinks its controversial stance on user content, but vows to revisit the issue with member input.
InternetNews June 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Shortens Hold Time on User Data From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the announcement this week in response to another round of European Union objections.
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InternetNews June 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Readies EU Appeal The company marshals its forces for its fight to reverse the European Commission's ruling that it abused its market dominance.
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