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Germany Applies Brakes to Google & Co.
from Spiegel
Sometimes it's a good thing to have at
least one real enemy, particularly when
you already have no friends. No one knows
this better than Ilse Aigner.
For the last year and a half, Aigner,
who is from Upper Bavaria and is a member
of the conservative Christian Social Union
(CSU), the sister party to Angela Merkel's
Christian Democratic Union, has been
Germany's minister of food, agriculture
and consumer protection ... She hasn't
made much of an impression.
Until now, that is. She recently took
on a truly serious issue: the Internet and
data privacy. And suddenly the minister
finds herself facing more powerful foes
than dodgy butchers: online giants like
Amazon, Facebook and, above all,
Google.
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