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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."
Considering the data retention being required of ISPs by countries like the UK how can they complain about Google etc. ?
>The EU started out as a common market, to make trade easier between European countries. Now it's turned into an anti-America machine. Now everybody loses.
No, you're wrong, and your post is typical of many USians. You're used, as a country, to trampling all before you - but the EU is too big to push around. The EU is not anti-US but it does have its own point of view on many topics that may diverge from the States. You are confusing the normal free will of the EU with being specifically anti-US.