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EU privacy regulators give EU, U.S. three months to find new data pact

October 16, 2015 admin angeles, billion-market, chief-executive, data-protection, ensure-everyday, european, personal-data, prince, social, staples-center, steve-ballmer, the-regulators, united

By Julia Fioretti LONDON (Reuters) – Companies could face action from European privacy regulators if the European Commission and United States do not come up with a new system enabling them to shuffle data across the Atlantic in three months, the regulators said on Friday. The highest EU court last week struck down a system known as Safe Harbour used by over 4,000 firms to transfer personal data to the United States, leaving companies without alternatives scrambling to put new legal measures in place to ensure everyday business could continue

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Google refuses French order to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

July 31, 2015 admin 30th-corrects, data-protection, european, exposing-itself, french, from-the-french, julia-fioretti, million-removal, request-search, ruling, search, search-engine, zurich

(This version of the July 30th corrects story to read “partly” of a political nature, not “mostly” in paragraph 10) By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google Inc is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online, it said on Thursday, exposing itself to possible fines. The French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person's name from all its websites, including Google.com. Google complied with the ruling and has since received more than a quarter of a million removal requests, according to its transparency report

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Austrian student’s lawsuit vs Facebook bogged down in procedure

April 9, 2015 publisher admit-the-suit, angelika-gruber, data-activist, data-protection, facebook, hearings-began, install-further, investigation, millions, news-conference, schrems, social-networking, united, united-states, violating-their

By Shadia Nasralla and Angelika Gruber VIENNA (Reuters) – Facebook presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court on Thursday trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of violating their privacy. The first day of hearings began with a four-hour session in which Facebook's lawyers tried to convince the judge not to admit the suit brought by law student Max Schrems, 27, who is claiming 500 euros ($538) in damages for each user

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EU official criticizes Google meetings on right to be forgotten ruling

November 4, 2014 admin cybersecurity, data-protection, europe, expects-revenue, fourth, julia-fioretti, meetings, meetings-were, most-popular, revenue-largely, search-engine, series, soham, world

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A senior EU official criticized a series of public meetings held in Europe by Google on a landmark court ruling on the “right to be forgotten”, saying the meetings were part of lobbying efforts against EU data protection rules. Paul Nemitz, a director in the European Commission’s justice department, made his comments at Google’s Brussels meeting, the last in the series of meetings aimed at helping the world’s most popular Internet search engine implement the judgment

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Facebook says government requests for user data rises 24 percent

November 4, 2014 creative data-protection, expects-revenue, government, julia-fioretti, meetings, over-the-second, said-requests, series, zenica

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said requests by governments for user information rose by about a quarter in the first half of 2014 over the second half of last year.