EU to Investigate Passport Privacy Concerns 102
mvdwege writes: "Well, it appears that the old fight between the US and the EU over privacy regulations is about to enter a second round. In response to a letter by a Member of the European Parliament, the Commission has stated that it will start investigating Microsofts possible breach of the EU privacy regulations. The Register has a nice summary."
A Considerable Knowledge of Dictionaries (Score:3, Funny)
This, taken from the the original parliamentary submission [eu.int] upon which the Reg article is based, is laugh-out-load funny:
2. Is the Commission also aware that failure to register with .NET Passport results in exclusion from many sites' services, that unsubscribing is not possible, that periodically only out-of-date information is removed and that the passwords to be given (minimum of six characters only) are easily accessible, to some extent, to others posing as system administrators or possessing considerable knowledge of dictionaries?
You realize, of course, that pot is legal in the Netherlands?
Yeah well.. (Score:2, Funny)
You Know You've Lost When... (Score:5, Funny)
The guy asking these questions, Erik Meijer MEP, probably realized the game was up when the Parliament issued it's preliminary answers [eu.int] in only one format... Microsoft Word.