Setback for Sarkozy as French parliament rejects controversial internet law: “President Sarkozy suffered an embarrassing setback in his efforts to curb
illegal downloading when an opposition ploy led Parliament to reject a
controversial new law that would cut off internet service to offenders.”
Britain in the dock over secret tracking of internet accounts: “Fears that Britain is slipping into a surveillance society have been
heightened by Brussels initiating legal action after declaring that UK laws
guaranteeing data protection were ‘structurally flawed’ and well below the
European standard.”