| 31 |  AUCKLAND (Reuters) - Two men sought worldwide in connection with a U.S.-led crackdown on the online file-sharing website Megaupload have been arrested, a New Zealand government lawyer told a court on Monday.
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| 32 | Companies doing business in Europe would have new data privacy rules and fines for violations, under proposals made public Wednesday. The proposals from the European Commission follow a two-year study of how sites such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo are being used.
Proposed fines are very stiff, up to 2 percent of a company's annual revenue. For Google, as an example, that could amount to as much as three-quarters of a billion dollars. The proposed rules will become law by the end of next year if approved by all members of the European Union and the European Parliament.
'Right to Be Forgotten'
Google, which has been under investigation by various countries for privacy violations, said through a spokesperson in Brussels that it supports "simplifying privacy rules in Europe to both protect consumers online and stimulate economic growth." The company said it that it was possible "to have simple rules that do both."
The European commissioner for data privacy, Viviane Reding, said the new legislation was needed to better protect consumer privacy. She told reporters that, while personal data protection is a fundamental right, "citizens do not always feel in control" of their information. Reding said the proposal would save businesses nearly $3 billion annually.
The previous European laws on privacy date from 1995, when less than 1 percent of European users had access to the Internet.
One component of the proposed legislation is what Reding describes as "the right to be forgotten," where a user can require that all data about them is removed from a Web site and related databases.
In addition, the guidelines would require user consent to maintain customer data, rather than simply a default consent. Social networking sites often remove user information from public view if requested, but keep the information as part of its database.
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| 33 | BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers are seeking to further ratchet down the fees mobile operators charge users when they travel abroad, according to a draft plan seen by Reuters, taking aim at a lucrative source of industry profit.
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| 34 | COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - European Union competition ministers supported plans on Friday to remove barriers to electronic trade in a bid to spur economic growth and jobs by expanding the single market to the digital world, officials said.
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| 35 | BERLIN/SOFIA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters took part in rallies across Europe on Saturday against an international anti-piracy agreement they fear will curb their freedom to download movies and music for free and encourage Internet surveillance.
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| 36 | (Reuters) - France's data protection regulator will launch an official investigation into Google's new privacy policy and said that its preliminary view was that it did not conform with European laws on protecting individuals' privacy.
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| 37 | (Reuters) - France's data protection watchdog has cast doubt on the legality and fairness of Google's new privacy policy, which it said breached European laws.
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| 38 | LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc, the world's biggest social networking site, said its service was unavailable in some European countries on Wednesday morning because of technical problems.
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