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To: carranza2 who wrote (101271)	6/20/2013 12:14:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Recommended By prometheus1976 Robin Plunder see clearly now Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219502

C2, being a world renown legal authority, I can say that Edward Snowden is innocent of the planned charges because the secrecy agreement he is alleged to have signed was illegal. It is illegal to conspire to agree with people who have done, intend to, and do commit crimes with the purpose of a secrecy agreement being to hide the criminal acts from due legal process and prosecution. Edward was not privy to any secrets before signing the alleged agreement [which I have not seen and it might not exist]. So he cannot be guilty of those crimes. Nor can he be required to keep crimes secret under the alleged agreement once he does become aware of them. On the contrary, he is legally obliged to withdraw his consent to the criminal conspiracy, thereby unsigning the illegal agreement which was never a valid or enforceable agreement, if it did exist. Which he has done. He has also published the illegal acts by the conspirators so that due legal process against those criminally active and conspiratorially supportive can be conducted. If somebody required Edward to sign a document intending Edward to thereby become a co-conspirator, then that person is guilty not only of whatever part they took in the illegal actions but also of attempting to extend the criminal conspiracy to Edward. Conspiracy to commit crime against the people of the USA is treason as the USA is constituted of They the People, not of a sovereign [the usual treasonous situation]. Those criminals and conspirators such as Clapper and co-conspirators should be prosecuted and punished. Obama, as co-conspirator and director of operations against They the People should be impeached for treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanours as per the constitution [which he knows all about so he can't plead ignorance]. President Biden should also be prosecuted as he likely is a co-conspirator. Next in line for the presidency would be ... ummm, need to check Google but isn't it the Speaker of the House of Representatives aka John Boehner? Yes, Google says so. You're welcome, Mqurice

To: carranza2 who wrote (101271)	6/20/2013 6:42:46 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 219502

The blowback against goog gets underway End game, lose markets as well as ip, should lawsuits pile on http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-20/google-to-get-3-months-to-fix-privacy-policy-or-face-french-fine.html Google Gets 3 Months to Fix Privacy or Face French Fines Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Google Inc. is breaching French laws because it “prevents individuals from knowing how their personal data may be used and from controlling such use,” said France’s National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, the country’s data protection watchdog known as CNI. France gave Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) three months to amend its policy regarding Internet users’ data to avoid fines, and said five other European countries will follow suit by the end of July. The U.S. search engine giant is breaching French laws because it “prevents individuals from knowing how their personal data may be used and from controlling such use,” France’s National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, the country’s data protection watchdog known as CNIL, said today in a statement in Paris. It ordered Google to comply with the French Data Protection Act. “France, Spain, the U.K. at the start of next week and Germany at the end of next week will all take a formal and official decision to start repressive proceedings against Google, and a second salvo will come from Italy and the Netherlands by the end of July,” Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, Chairwoman of the French authority, said. Google faces probes across Europe over changes to harmonize privacy policies for more than 60 products last year. Global data protection regulators this week wrote to the Mountain View, California-based company urging Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to contact them about possible issues with its web-enabled eyeglasses, called Google Glass. “Our privacy policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services,” Al Verney, a spokesman for Google in Brussels, said by phone. “We have engaged fully with the data protection authorities involved throughout this process and will continue to do so going forward.” Gmail MessagingThe French data protection watchdog ordered the company to spell out for users why it collects information “to understand practically the processing of their personal data,” better inform users of its privacy policy, and “define retention periods of personal data processed that do not exceed the period necessary for the purposes for which they are collected.” CNIL is also asking the owner of the Gmail messaging system to request users’ permission for “the potentially unlimited combination” of their data, ask users’ approval to collect their data with tools such as the “Doubleclick” and “Analytics” cookies, “+1” buttons or any other Google service on third-party websites, and “inform users and then obtain their consent in particular before storing cookies in their terminal.” The formal notice “isn’t very prescriptive,” Falque-Pierrotin said. “We’re leaving Google some leeway to reach compliance.” Maximum FineCNIL can levy a maximum fine of 150,000 euros ($198,200), and 300,000 euros in case of a repeated offense, she said. Other regulator may impose sanctions of up to 1 million euros, potentially exposing Google to “several million euros” of fines on top of damaging its image, she said. The French watchdog’s most severe fine to date was 100,000 euros against Google in 2011 for breaches related to its Street View mapping service. The six privacy regulators started “coordinated” enforcement measures in April over the company’s failure to address complaints about its new privacy policy. The French agency led a review on behalf of other authorities to review whether Google’s revisions to its policies violated EU standards. “Beyond the legal framework which must be respected, the order largely reflects Google users demand for transparency, for ownership of their navigation and online life,” Falque-Pierrotin said. To contact the reporters on this story: Francois de Beaupuy in Paris at fdebeaupuy@bloomberg.net; Stephanie Bodoni in Brussels at sbodoni@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Simon Thiel at sthiel1@bloomberg.net; Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net