Google risks huge fine under new EU data rules: top official
Wednesday February 20, 2013
Google's latest privacy policy could land it with a fine of upto $1 billion under a new law allowing Europe-wide challenges to US-based internet giants, Europe's top justice official said on Tuesday.
Charges dropped against girls arrested for Facebook post on Bal Thackeray
Press Trust of India | Tuesday December 18, 2012
Police on Tuesday dropped all charges against two girls from Palghar whose arrest over a Facebook post criticising shutdown in Mumbai during Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's funeral last month had sparked an uproar.
Tajikistan blocks Facebook access to silence critics
Reuters | Tuesday November 27, 2012
Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading "mud and slander" about veteran President Imomali Rakhmon and officials in the Central Asian republic.
