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EU Draft Data Law Warmer on Patriot Act, Colder on "Right to Be Forgotten"

There were two big expectations from this morning's release of the initial draft of data protection regulations from the European Commission, both of which were built up through quite a bit of fanfare from EC Vice President Viviane Reding's office last November. One was that the Commission would "stick it to" the U.S. Patriot Act, the law that enables American law enforcement agencies access to ...

Pan-EU consistency in data protection reform welcome, but burden on business a problem, says expert

OPINION: Reforms of data protection law announced today by the European Commission will bring businesses certainty with one hand while handing them a major headache with the other.

The Patriot Act and your data: Should you ask cloud providers about protection?

Worries have been steadily growing among European IT leaders that the USA Patriot Act would give the U.S. government unfettered access to their data if stored on the cloud servers of American providers -- so much so that Obama administration officials last week held a press conference to quell international concern over the protection of data stored on U.S. soil.

Report: Power plants pollute

Power plants throughout eastern Massachusetts are the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change in the state, according to new data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

UPDATE 1-EU regulators want Google to halt new privacy policy

* EU regulators query Google privacy overhaul * Google surprised by regulators' concerns * US lawmakers also question Google on data protection (Adds details, quotes in paragraphs 3,7,8,9,10) BRUSSELS, ...