Search engines will obey EU data rules
THE EU is warning Internet search engines that they must obey EU data rules or risk being banned from the Olde Worlde.
European data privacy regulators have said that they are concerned that Internet search engines based outside Europe were doing crazy things with a person's IP address and search history.
According to AP, the Old World, the EU has a few rules that someone must consent to their data being collected and give individuals the right to object or verify their information apply to search engines.
As far as the EU is concerned that applies to outfits headquartered outside the EU but have "an establishment" in one of the EU member states.
Although this could scare the pants off the search engines who are currently
under pressure in the US to hand over as much data as possible to the music and
film industries and the US government, many seem to be happy with the idea.
Google and Microsoft both really want an excuse to wipe as much personal data
from their servers as possible, as it prevents them getting involved in long
running court battles over the data. ยต
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"According to AP, the Old World, the EU has a few rules that someone must consent to their data being collected and give individuals the right to object or verify their information apply to search engines."

Doesn't that kind of logic boil down to what we get with EULAs at the moment?

Basically you'll be given an ultimatum: Agree to have your data mined or no service.

I'm presuming that the NintendoVIP website's tracking of user's actions and the related ultimatum of "lose your stars if you don't agree to let us track you" is just one example of these laws being implemented...

Which basically sucks...
I live in Bulgaria (in EU for 1 year now) and our government just accepted a law which is giving the police direct interface to our ISPs' servers and recoding the IP addresses. It also obligates our ISPs to record and keep all kind of personal information including visited pages and chat history. How is that compatible with the European data privacy regulators?!