In the draft decision, the EU approves the measures drawn up by the United States concerning the protection of personal data. Although the preliminary design immediately met with opposition. The exchange of personal data between Europe and the United States has been a thorny issue for years. In 2015, Austrian Max Schrems sounded the alarm when he sued Facebook for …
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Sustainability•Dec 19 22 16:03Author: Remy Cook According to Diederik Samsom, the negotiation agreement between the European Council and the European Parliament on the emissions trading system, the social climate fund and the CO2 border tax can be considered a breakthrough. He says so in BNR Koplopers. “We’ve been working on it for three years.” Samsom, who in 2022 is Frans …
Read More »Picture perfect: Beautiful Northern Lights – KIJK Magazine
To get your work week off to a good start, a beautiful scientific or technological image on our site every Monday. This Time: The Canadian Northern Lights. Every year, Capture the Atlas, a travel photography site, publishes a list of the best Northern Lights photos. This year they made a selection with entries from 25 different photographers. With each photo, …
Read More »Danske Bank pleads guilty to fraud in the United States and pays 2 billion
News December 14, 2022 Reading time of about 2 minutes Danske Bank admitted to US prosecutors that it was guilty of bank fraud related to a major money laundering scandal. The Danish bank therefore pays a fine of 2 billion dollars (1.9 billion euros). For years, Danske Bank did not investigate suspicious money flows through its Estonian branch, although …
Read More »Ex-head of crypto exchange FTX doesn’t contest US extradition – BLOX
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former director of FTX, is expected to tell a court in the Bahamas on Monday that he will not challenge the extradition to the United States. From the Bahamas to the United States In the United States, he is accused of fraud, but Reuters written citing an unnamed source that Bankman-Fried still wants to meet …
Read More »Bloomberg: Netherlands and Japan follow US with chip export rules for China
Following the lead of the United States (US), the Netherlands and Japan are imposing export restrictions on chip production against China. The countries are toeing the American line, which has already introduced such restrictions. The measures are expected to affect, among others, the Dutch ASML. It pays Bloomberg source-based. The Netherlands and Japan are said to have reached an agreement …
Read More »‘Cryptoqueen’ employee pleads guilty in the US to OneCoin fraud
Karl Greenwood, 45, was arrested in Thailand in 2018 and extradited to the United States for his role in selling the alleged cryptocurrency OneCoin, which federal prosecutors in Manhattan call a $4 billion pyramid scheme that defrauded investors. He has been detained since his arrest. The plea comes as prosecutors for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) step up …
Read More »Jackie Groenen and birthday girl Lieke Martens with PSG in the quarter-finals after the victory over Real Madrid | foreign soccer
Like last Sunday during the top match won by France at Olympique Lyon (0-1) Groenen and Martens started on the bench. Groenen replaced Ramona Bachmann in the 62nd minute tonight and played the last half hour from the left flank. Lieke Martens only entered the pitch in the 93rd minute on her 30th birthday, when Kadidiatou Diani had to be …
Read More »These brands fight menstrual poverty
Menstrual poverty is a serious social problem. In Scotland and New Zealand, a law is in place that makes tampons and sanitary napkins free for those who cannot afford them, but in the Netherlands similar regulations will not come into force until next year. To get through the onerous month of December, brands are taking matters into their own hands …
Read More »US Senate agrees to ban TikTok from public servants’ work phones
WASHINGTON (AP/BLOOMBERG) — The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the banning of the popular TikTok app from the work phones of U.S. government officials. According to the initiator of the bill, the Chinese application is “a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party”. The bill still needs to be passed by the House of Representatives before the law takes effect. …
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