Belgium Tries to Fine Yahoo for Protecting US User Privacy

Techdirt is reporting that Belgium is trying to extract fines from Yahoo for not producing user data that was recently demanded of the US company. Instead of following normal diplomatic channels Belgian officials apparently made the data demands directly to Yahoo's US headquarters and then took the company to criminal court, where a judge issued the fine. "The implications of this ruling are profound and far-reaching. Following the court's logic would subject user data associated with any service generally available online to the jurisdiction of all countries. It would also subject all companies that offer services generally available on the global Internet to the laws of all jurisdictions, potentially exposing individual employees to a variety of criminal sanctions."

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hate the usa all you want

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just please make sure to hate all the other countries in the world

i don't mind that people hate the usa. i mind when they use they're hatred of the usa to forgive bad behavior by others

from the perspective of iran and the usa, this is the majority of assholes in the world, and they are all morons:

1. anti-american, pro-iran
2. pro-american, anti-iran

substitute iran for any other country, and you get my drift

heres is the only valid point of view in the world, which i wish more would adapt:

1. anti-american, anti-iran

that's my point: please, hate the usa. just don't let your hatred of the usa lead you to forgive other countries when they do bad, and sometimes far worse