EU Broadens Probe of Search Engines and Privacy

Raver32 sends in word of a PC World article reporting that EU officials are looking beyond Google in their examination of the impact search engines have on privacy. Quoting: "A panel of European data protection officials called the Article 29 Working Group decided Wednesday to request information from Google's rivals amid concerns that search engines are holding onto information about the people who use them for too long, Hustinx said. Hustinx... declined to name the companies. However, they are believed to include Yahoo Inc., Lycos Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live.com."

Comments

Sounds like a plan

[niceone]

Round up the usual suspects, drag them down the station, knock a few heads together and see what falls out.

Re:Pot / Kettle

[Kierthos]

It's not part of the mainland, but just what region would it be classified as part of? South America?

Re:Pot / Kettle

[MrMr]

I thought they wanted to be called the 'USS Great Britain', America's biggest and slowest aircraft carrier...

Re:Pot / Kettle

[geminidomino]

The UK: Europe's Own Quebec. :)

Re:EU protectionism

[speaker of the truth]

Again, copies of what? What does the US produce that the EC copies? Operating Systems. Windows is far superior to Linux (which is why it has a far larger userbase) whereas everyone knows Linux was and is developed by Europeans and communists (and sometimes they're the same thing) and copies much of Microsoft's work (placement of the start button in either KDE or Gnome, can't remember which).