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Two Taliban hostages back in Switzerland

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:45:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Olivier O and Daniela W, the two Swiss hostages who were captured by a Taliban group in Pakistan while they were on an overland trip through Asia, arrived back home Saturday. They flew into Zurich airport where they were reunited with their families and they then met with the task force that [...]

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Parliament votes for Swiss-US tax treaty amendment

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:45:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The lower house of the Swiss parliament Monday 5 March voted strongly in favour of an amended US-Swiss tax treaty, 116-52, thus backing a vote by the upper house in December 2011. Some foreign media coverage of the vote implies that the treaty is designed to help out 11 Swiss banks under [...]

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Data and privacy issues are growing focus in US-Swiss talks: taxes, visas, banking

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:25:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Data privacy concern is increasingly raising its head in US-Swiss talks over taxes, visas and banking. The latest incident is linked to Switzerland’s decision to continue participating in the US visa waiver programme. Parliament will have its say in US data demands for visa waiver programme The Swiss Federal Council Wednesday 1 [...]

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Hospital staff fired: football players’ privacy breach

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:00:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Three employees have been fired and two suspended at the University of Iowa Hospitals in the US for breaching patient privacy in a case involved 13 Iowa Hawkeyes football players, the university announced 3 February. The 13 have contracted a rare disease, rhabdomyolysis, according to their coach, and the hospital has been searching for the [...]

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Swiss gov’t lays out 2011 agenda

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:21:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Federal Council will consult on plan for how big banks can fail, negotiate withholding tax on foreigners’ accounts Measles, tougher penal sentences, electricity suppliers, corporate tax rates all on the 2011 schedule Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Government, fresh from the defeat of its counter-initiative in the vote on foreign convicts 28 November, has [...]

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Mouse movements give shopping clues

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:09:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Debate grows over how much web site owners should tell visitors about information gleaned Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The news that Google and the CIA are teaming up to predict the future based on what we’re already doing online has prompted yet another media debate over privacy and how much information is spilled by our [...]

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Privacy concerns over Facebook (Chappatte)

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 29 May 2010 06:43:02 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ©2010 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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Privacy online isn’t a right: it’s a condition for other rights

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:25:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “Our definition of privacy is fast-evolving right now and we don’t control it,” says Olivier Glassey, from the University of Lausanne. But don’t panic. “I believe privacy is gone for good,” argues Christian Heller, a self-described “futurist” who relishes taking the debate a step further. Heller likes to remind his listeners [...]

Airport body scans prompt objections

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:06:43 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The US began tightening security checks on international flights into the country Monday 4 January, including using more body scans, but the number of voices objecting to the scannerss is growing. Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, Sunday promised to gradually introduce more of the scanners, but privacy and civil liberties [...]

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Google, Switzerland agree on Street Views

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:25:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Google and the Swiss data protection boss, Hanspeter Thuer, Thursday 17 December reached a temporary agreement on Google Street View while a Swiss government lawsuit is pending against the company. Google will refrain from activating Google Street View, under the terms of the agreement, as well as any other Street Views [...]

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