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Swiss privacy watchdog to take Google to court over Street View service
Star Tribune
| BERN, Switzerland - Switzerland's privacy watchdog is taking legal action to force Google to make changes to its Street View service. | The Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Hanspeter Thuer, says the search engine company rejected most of his proposals to ensure personal privacy is protected. ...
Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss Federal Councilor, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, on the left, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Member of the EC in charge of External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy
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Libya to put Swiss businessmen on trial
Middle East Online
TRIPOLI - Two Swiss businessmen barred from leaving Libya since July 2008 amid a diplomatic row with Bern are to go on trial later this year for tax evasion and over immigration laws, a senior official said on Thursday. | "The two Swiss citizens will be tried before the end of the year," Khaled Kaim...
Swiss Say Google's Street View Is Too Revealing
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal information. | The...
Swiss Federal authority sues Google
Deccan Herald
Zurich/New Delhi, Nov 13, PTI | The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (SFDPIC) on Friday said it is taking Google to the Federal Administrative Court over the search engine’s refusal to conceal privacy of the people/places in...
Technology - Google
Siliconvalley online
GENEVA — Google's unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. | ...
Kudelski takes control of OpenTV
Business Journal
Swiss suitor raises offer for OpenTV OpenTV takeover effort draws lawsuit OpenTV investor fights takeover attempt | A Swiss firm that wants to take publicly traded OpenTV Corp. private has succeeded in buying 60 percent of the Class A shares it did n...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google over Street View
LA Daily News
| By Frank Jordans | Associated PressUpdated: 11/13/2009 10:12:28 AM PST | GENEVA — Google's unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. | T...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Newsday
| November 13, 2009  FRANK JORDANS (Associated Press Writer) Quick Summary | Swiss privacy watchdog to take Google to court over Street View service | GENEVA - GENEVA (AP) — .'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an...
NOVEMBER 11 , 2008 , ZAMBOANGA PROVINCE ,PHILIPPINES - SOME PLANTS GETTING DRY DUE TO HOT WEATHER IN THE UPLAND MOUNTAIN  IN CABIGAN.
WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
Lifting the lid on climate change talks
The Guardian
| Rich countries bullying poorer ones, mud-slinging and back-stabbing - environmental summits can be vicious | Illustration: Gillian Blease | At 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smart...
Internet censorship seen liable to WTO challenge
EC / European Communities, 2009
Internet censorship seen liable to WTO challenge
Canada Dot Com
       | GENEVA (Reuters) - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcomin...
Serbia buys 3 million Swiss swine flu vaccines
Fresno Bee
| The Associated Press E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's health authorities have ordered three million swine flu vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG worth an estimated eu...
Serbia buys 3 million Swiss swine flu vaccines
Philadelphia Daily News
| The Associated Press | BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's health authorities have ordered three million swine flu vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG worth an estimated euro24 million ($36 million). | Health officials said Friday the fi...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Asbury Park Press
Next Page 1 | 2 Previous Page | GENEVA - Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. | The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that he ...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
The Boston Globe
| BERN, Switzerland-Switzerland's privacy watchdog is taking legal action to force Google to make changes to its Street View service. | The Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Hanspeter Thuer, says the search engine company rejected most of his pro...
Money
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a news conference in New York, Friday Sept. 25, 2009.
(photo: AP / Bebeto Matthews)
Ahmadinejad suggests Iran role in atom fuel bank
The Star
| TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday declared Iran's readiness for international nuclear cooperation, including on a global fuel bank, but made clear again that Tehran would not halt its own atomic activities. | In an interview with state broadcaster IRIB, Ahmadinejad did not directly mention a U.N.-brokered nuclear fuel ...



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