Google to close German email service if country approves internet traffic law
From Forbes.com:
Google has threatened to close its German online services Google Mail if the German government does not scrap its controversial draft law that would monitor telecommunications and internet traffic, Peter Fleischer, the company's global privacy counsel, said in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche magazine.Fleischer said the German Justice Ministry wants to make it an obligation not only for internet providers but also for those which offer E-mail services to provide customers data in such a way that users could be identified.