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As the U.S. Congress stays on track to pass a sixteen-year record low number of bills this year, its counterpart in the European Union continues on nothing less than a data privacy rampage. In a speech this morning at a continent-wide data privacy conference in Brussels, European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding renewed her call for a single data protection authority to oversee privacy policies in all member states - a measure whose main objections now come from member states themselves, rather than Parliament.

But in an effort to keep her end of the bargain, Comm. Reding openly called upon cloud service providers to refrain from a nasty habit that more and more of them have gotten into this year. Apparently referring to this story from IDG's TechWorld UK, she said CSPs should stop offering themselves to European customers as data shelters from the prying eyes of American lawmakers.

If you read any tech publication this week, you couldn't have helped but encounter the brouhaha over Facebook's revised Terms of Use. Now, Facebook has decided to return to its previous Terms - dated September 23, 2008 - until it can better determine how to proceed. To help ensure they don't make the same mistakes again, they've also started the "Facebook Bill of Rights," a Facebook group formed specifically to allow people "to give input and suggestions on Facebook's Terms of Use."