Five U.S. privacy groups have opposed a proposed US$8.5 million settlement with Google in a class action lawsuit over search privacy, as it fails to require Google to change its business practices, they said. Google was sued in October ...
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Almost all of the iron ore imported from Mexico were found to be of low quality at the port in Hebei Province in the first half of 2013, news portal. According to the report, the office of Hebei entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureau ...
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China's work safety watchdog on Tuesday urged local authorities to further their work to close down small chemical enterprises that do not meet standards set to ensure safe production. The State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) said ...
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China's consumer quality watchdog issued a warning Monday morning over two potentially tainted New Zealand-made Karicare-brand infant formula products because of botulism concerns. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, ...
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China's food watchdog, the State Food and Drug Administration, has released information on nearly 130 milk powder producers that are authorized to sell their products. It is also tightening regulation on the production of infant formula. ...
A leading official from China's food and drug watchdog has called for enhanced testing to tackle outstanding issues in the country's food and drug sector. Sun Xianze, a member of the Communist Party of China group of the China Food and ...
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8 local tempered glass manufacturers were ordered to suspend production after failing quality tests, the city's quality watchdog said yesterday. Their substandard products are now being recalled, added the Shanghai Quality and Technical ...
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E.On has been ordered by energy watchdog Ofgem to pay £3 million due to inaccurate reporting relating to its distribution of free energy saving lamps. Under the government's Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) scheme, energy ...
E.On has been ordered by energy watchdog Ofgem to pay £3 million due to inaccurate reporting relating to its distribution of free energy saving lamps. Under the government's Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT) scheme, energy ...
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed a penalty of £2,834,700 against mobile phone insurance broker, Policy Administration Services Limited (PAS), for poor complaints handling of mobile phone insurance policies sold by ...
The recently revealed mass collection of phone records and other communications by the U.S.National Security Agency may not be effective in preventing terrorism,according to some critics. The data collection programs,as revealed by former ...
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The competition watchdog has revealed that Telstra has breached measures designed to stop the telco giant from gaining unfair advantages over its rivals during the rollout of the National Broadband Network. The telco giant on seven ...
Google's Waze acquisition should not need an antitrust probe, according to the chairman of research and analysis firm TechMarketView, Richard Holway. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) had been urged to block Google's $1.3bn (£830m) ...
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Consumer Watchdog today called on federal regulators to block Google's proposed $1 billion acquisition of Waze, developers of a mobile mapping application, on antitrust grounds. The nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group made the ...
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The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that allows the New York City Board of Elections to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines around the city with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the ...
Tags: Voting Machines, New York City