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...Germany's privacy laws also cover social-networking sites. Under the Telemedia Act, a website must get a user's permission before passing personal data to a third party for other purposes. The consumer protection ministry says this applies to foreign Internet companies operating in Germany as well. "Facebook may have its headquarters in the U.S., but it has to respect German privacy laws because it is doing business in Germany," says Holger Eichele, a ministry spokesman. "Facebook has up to 7 million users in Germany, it publishes its guidelines in German, and it's clearly operating in the German...
...something of a skeptic about the iPad myself until I held one in my hands when Jobs came here to do a presentation at Time Inc. We've chosen to put Jobs on the cover - with a powerful new photograph of him by Marco Grob - and tell the story of the making of the iPad in part because we believe that the device and others like it, from companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Sony, will change people's lives by ushering in a new era of portable computing...
...same time, we did everything we could to make TIME available on the iPad. In the media these days, we have to participate in things that we also cover. I am not one of those who see the tablet as the solution for all the media's problems, but I do see it as a dynamic new way that we can present great reporting and writing to our readers. For the first time since the magazine's birth in 1923, we will soon be delivering the entire contents of TIME to paying customers in a radically different...
...says. If anything, however, the law may simply provide added impetus for entertainers and artists to push the boundaries. "The recent activities of the Catholic church are much more of an outrage than anything the blasphemy law might be there to prevent," McSavage says. "Beside pedophilia and the scandalous cover-up that ensued, blasphemy pales into insignificance...
...book instead. Then on Jan. 31, 2009, four men forced her from her home, accused her of being a spy and placed her in solitary confinement in Evin Prison. She was heavily interrogated and coerced into telling a false tale of how she used her book as a cover for her work as an American spy - a "confession" she later recanted. After a sham trial, she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Thanks in large part to international calls for her release (most notably from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton), Saberi was freed...