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Facebook 'tramples European privacy law': Belgian watchdog

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium’s privacy watchdog accused Facebook on Friday of trampling on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodging questions from national regulators. The Privacy Protection Commission (CPVP/CBPL), which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts, launched the blistering attack after trying to find out more about the U.S. social media giant’s practices. It urged Internet users to install

Want to know where to get high? There's an app for that

“The app is the first global platform of its kind allowing cannabis consumers to connect and unite to promote happiness while de-stigmatizing and hopefully decriminalizing cannabis use around the world,” Paulo Costa said. Having been one of the top-30 downloaded apps in Brazil, the app ranks the home nation as the biggest user and therefore the happiest country.

Toshiba sets up new panel to expand accounting probe

Toshiba Corp has set up a committee headed by a former prosecutor to broaden a probe of accounting irregularities that overstated operating profits by at least $420 million in recent years. The industrial conglomerate spooked investors last week, saying it was extending an investigation into inappropriate reporting of some infrastructure project costs and construction work. To buttress an internal probe, Toshiba on Friday appointed a panel of four outsiders, headed

Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Plunges by Most in Over Two Years

Consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in May by the most in more than two years as Americans’ views on the economy dimmed. The outcome was lower than the lowest estimate of 68 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. “The decline was widespread among all age and income subgroups as well as across all regions of the country,” Richard Curtin, director of the Michigan Survey of Consumers, said in a statement. “To be sure,