Google raises internet privacy concerns
(vnunet.com)

"Three quarters of the countries in the world have no privacy regimes at all, and among those that do have laws many were largely adopted before the rise of the internet," he [Peter Fleischer, Google's head of privacy] told The Guardian.

"It is said that every time you use a credit card, your details are passed through six different countries."

"A lot of data is being outsourced from Europe and the US to India, for example, but India does not have any privacy regulation," he said.”