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Vodafone granted governments direct access to its networks for surveillance

2014-06-06 13:33:50| InfoWorld: Top News

Vodafone has granted governments direct access to its networks in several countries, allowing them to listen to all conversations on those networks, the company said Friday. Vodafone Group received lawful demands for assistance from a law enforcement agency or government authority in 29 countries between April 1, 2013, and March 31, 2014, it said in its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report.

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Low-Carb Diets Are Back, but for National Governments

2014-05-30 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Judging only by U.S. political debates about climate change, a reasonable person might conclude that the world was still stuck at square one when it comes to cutting carbon. The situation is nowhere near that dire. The world is stuck at square two. Around the globe, 39 nations either price carbon emissions, or are close to doing so. There are also 23 sub-national programs in state or provincial governments. Carbon markets are worth about $30 billion and pricing programs cover 12 percent of global...

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Governments Await Obama's Move on Carbon to Gauge U.S. Climate Efforts

2014-05-27 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: President Obama is expected to announce on Monday an Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation's fleet of 600 coal-fired power plants, in a speech that government analysts in Beijing, Brussels and beyond will scrutinize to determine how serious the president is about fighting global warming. The regulation will be Mr. Obama's most forceful effort to reverse 20 years of relative inaction on climate change by the United States, which has stood as the greatest...

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