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Google threatens to drop Gmail in Germany

Tuesday, June 26 2007 @ 01:28 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde

Google is unhappy with proposed German legislation to ban anonymous e-mail accounts and may consider dropping the German version of its Gmail service.

"This whole initiative is a bad idea," a spokesman for Google in Germany said Monday.
The draft bill would require ISPs (Internet service providers) and providers of e-mail service to collect and store customer data that security officials could access if necessary.
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