Viviane Reding
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Viviane Reding (born 27 April 1951 in Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourg politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. Before starting a professional career as a journalist for the leading newspaper in Luxembourg, the Luxemburger Wort, she obtained a doctorate in human sciences at the Sorbonne. From 1986 to 1998, she was President of the Luxembourg Union of Journalists. On November 27, 2009, she was upgraded in the "Barroso II Commission" to Vice-President responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, and is affiliated with the European People's Party (EPP).She is married and has three children.She started her political career in 1979, as a Member of the Luxembourg Parliament and held the following positions:She then became leader of Luxembourg’s EPP delegation in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999 and she was a Member of the group's office.Within the European Parliament, she has held positions as President of the Petitions Committee for about 3 years, and Vice-President of the Social Committee and the Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee for about 2 years each.From 1981 to 1999, she was.
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Google risks huge fine under new EU data rules: top official
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google's latest privacy policy could land it with a fine of upto $1 billion under a new law allowing Europe-wide challenges to U. S. -based Internet giants, Europe's top justice official said on Tuesday.
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Europe's 'chilling' data reforms will deter a UK Facebook or Twitter
It will be difficult for the UK to be home to the next Twitter or Facebook, because of the "chilling" effects of Europe's proposed changes to data protection laws, claim industry representatives.
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Channel 4 and Sky News sign the equality pledge – but what about the BBC?
I'm an enormous fan of the BBC – but its explanation for not signing up to ensure 30% of experts on TV are women sounds like something out of Monty Python.
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Android 'free' apps pass user data to advertisers, study finds
Research finds UK users' data is passed to US network – potentaily breaching European data protection laws.
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Spain refers Google privacy complaints to EU's top court
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain's highest court wants the top court in Europe to decide if requests by Spanish citizens to have data deleted from Google's search engine are lawful, in a case that could put more pressure on it to review its privacy policies.
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Europe Wants Google To Freeze Its New Privacy Policy
An influential European privacy body has urged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to “pause” its new privacy policy due to be implemented in March. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party wrote a letter to Larry Page….
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EU regulators want Google to halt new privacy policy
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of European regulators has written to Google Inc calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users' personal data.
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Breach of new EU data rules to carry high fines
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission unveiled new online data privacy rules on Wednesday, putting more responsibility on companies to protect users' information, and said those who breach the code could be fined up to two percent of their annual turnover.
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#DLD12: Viviane Reding on privacy
I’m at the DLD conference in Munich. Haven’t live-blogged in ages. But the European Commission vice-president Viviane Reding is speaking and I disagreed with her rather a lot in Public Parts, arguing that her four pillars for internet governance — privacy by default, demanding European standards for storage of data, the right to be forgotten, and transparency — bring unintended consequences.
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Jeff Jarvis: FTC fines Santa Claus for violating children's privacy
WASHINGTON--Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today announced a record fine against Santa Claus for violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
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