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Industry notes

Tech firms lobby EU on privacy. Microsoft, Google, and other American tech companies are telling the Europe to streamline privacy rules so they can offer remote computing and data-storage services. The EU’s rules are “fractured,” the article says. They can prove to be “real hurdles or speed bumps to sales” said Mike Hintze, Microsoft’s associate general counsel. “That’s the case for us, as well as other cloud-services providers.”

Said

“To limit access … to the whole YouTube.com site, not to a particular video, breaches the right for freedom of information, guaranteed by Article 29 of Russia’s Constitution.”

—A Google representative in the Moscow Times after a court in Russia ordered a Russian Internet service provider to block access to YouTube due to a video perceived as racist. (Mashable)

Watercooler

FACETIME — The adult entertainment industry has put Apple in an “awkward” spot, the AP says, by using its FaceTime videoconference feature “to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist.” Many of the Craigslist ads tell potential workers that they’ll get a free iPhone in the deal.