European Region website - coming soon

Yes, you read right....we're hoping to launch the ARMA Europe website very soon. I'd like to understand what you'd like to see on it - it is after all your resource so the content should reflect your needs as records professionals in Europe.
There are already many chapter and region sites out there - you can get to these via the main website. Take a look around and let us know what you'd like on your site...either post suggestions back here so we can all discuss or send direct to me (gavin.siggers@healdan.co.uk).
We'll also need some help in running the site - feel free to volunteer.

Gavin Siggers
Director, ARMA Europe

Austria wants sanctions for data gathering after Google ‘accident'

EUobserver reports that in the wake of an admission by internet search giant Google that it had accidentally collected data from unencrypted wifi networks in people's homes while its fleet of cars were out photographing buildings and roads for its ‘Street View' map service, Austria has said it wants to make such moves punishable.

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Internet search engines scolded by EU regulators

Euractiv.com reports that EU regulators have reprimanded major search engines Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing for storing data search queries for too long and by so doing overlooking the bloc's Data Protection Directive. More here

EU countries probe Google data breach

According to Euractiv.com, Google is starting to feel the heat in Europe as several countries launch probes and demand more details about the companies' street-mapping technology, after it emerged that the application had inadvertently collected people's private information.

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Brussels rolls out 10-year internet masterplan

Half of Europeans subscribing to ultra-high-speed broadband by 2020, bringing an end to 'digital virgins' and the creation of a European cyber-attack response system - these are just some of the ambitious goals contained in the EU's 10-year plan for the online world.

http://euobserver.com/9/30105/?rk=1