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Give Peace a Chance
Today, I received from my favorite bär this postcard signed be several Postcrossers at their coffee-and-cake mini-meeting on 01 November 2009in Neuss, Germany.
Quelle-Insolvenz: Kundendaten müssen gelöscht werden
Quelle-Insolvenz: Kundendaten müssen gelöscht werden
Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband sieht möglichen Datenverkauf rechtlich nicht gedeckt
03.11.2009 - Seit Sonntag 6 Uhr ist klar: Der Ausverkauf von Quelle hat begonnen. Alles andere als klar ist, was mit den Kundendaten geschieht. Der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv) hält einen Verkauf an Dritte nicht durch das Bundesdatenschutzgesetz gedeckt. "Der Insolvenzverwalter muss dafür sorgen, dass Kundendaten nach Abwicklung aller Vertragsbeziehungen gelöscht werden", so Vorstand Gerd Billen.
Rund 18 Millionen Artikel will Quelle bis Weihnachten veräußern, um so die Insolvenzmasse zu erhöhen. Finanziell interessant sind aber auch die immensen Datenmengen, die der Versandhändler in den Jahren seines Bestehens über seine Kunden gesammelt hat. Einen Verkauf nach dem Listenprivileg schließt das Bundesdatenschutzgesetz jedoch nach Auffassung des Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverbandes im Insolvenzfall aus. "Das Ende von Quelle darf nicht zu einem Datenschlussverkauf führen", so Billen. Wo Unternehmensteile aufgelöst würden, seien die vorhandenen Kundendaten zu löschen.
Recht auf Löschung der Daten
Grundsätzlich haben Kunden das Recht, die Löschung ihrer Daten auch individuell zu verlangen. Ein entsprechendes Musterschreiben können sich Verbraucher auf der Webseite des Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverbandes herunterladen. Allerdings befürchtet der vzbv, durch die Insolvenz sei nicht mehr gewährleistet, dass Quelle den Anträgen tatsächlich noch nachkommt. Deshalb sei es dringend erforderlich, dass der Konkursverwalter in dieser Sache aktiv werde.Das Musterschreiben finden Sie rechts oben auf der Seite im Dokumentendownload.
Alle Fragen zur Quelle-Insolvenz rund um Gewährleistung, Garantie und Umtausch beantworten die Verbraucherzentralen in Ihrer Nähe: www.verbraucherzentrale.de
via vzbv.de
Ritter Sport House | Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
via seriouseats.com
Amazing chocolate, and as the statement that adorns every package might suggest: square, practical, good. Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. Good enough for house construction anyways.
Postillione, Briefträger, Sachsen, 1866
On Monday, 02 November 2009, I received from my dear Postcrossing friend, nordbär, this postcard of postmen from 1866 Saxony. I lubber me some mail-related mail! :D
EDIT: It would appear this postcard was published to commemorate 500 years of mail delivery (500 Jahre Post).
Some German words I learned are:
- Briefträger = Postman
- Post = Post office
- Postkarte = Postcard
- Luftpost = Air mail
- Jahre = Years
- Jubiläums = Anniversary
- Nord = North
- Bär = Bear
Mao - A Chinese Histoire
You always find strange stuff in Taiwan (the best and the worst) and I saw one last night in NCCU. Before showing you the picture, I must mention that NCCU (國立政治大學) is a university (where I was a student once) located in Taipei and mainly ruled by "blue" (KMT) people following the "blue" guideline, thus seeing stuff related to mainland china (such as mainland newspapers, teachers and even students) is quite common. But this was quite awkward :
Not because there is a DVD about Mao edited in Taiwan (that could have been awkward a few years ago, now...) but because the title is written in French ("Mao Une Histoire Chinoise") as well as the whole movie (with chinese subtitles of course), now you have to tell me what is the relationship between Mainland China, Taiwan, Mao and the French languages :)
I haven't see the DVD yet (still reading Mao - The Unknown Story for the second time, not that I love the guys but the book is quite complicated with a lot of names and situations) but it'll be interesting to see it as France and some French people (my dad's family for instance, who were fierce communists in that time) has always been a great support to Mao's regime (The General De Gaulle was among the first western leader to recognize the new Beijing government) and ideology (a lot of current (but old) french politicians claimed to be "Maoist" during their youth) and I guess it'll certainly be felt during the film.
Update : This movie is actually a french/german production for the french/german TV channel ARTE. Amazon says that it contains archives that has never been shown before.
Germany has eyes set on Islamic finance as a way to bring foreign investment into the country
'We are seeing great interest from investors in Islamic countries, who want to invest their money in Germany according to sharia principles,' Bafin president Jochen Sanio said at a conference on Islamic finance in Frankfurt.
via forbes.com
Germany seems to have the right idea when it comes to promotion of Islamic finance. As much as having a base of Muslims in the country is important and despite the high profile nature of Islamic banks in Europe, the real Islamic finance opportunity for Western countries lies in attracting Middle Eastern capital. This is what Germany did when two of its municipalities issued Sukuk in early 2000s -- and now again Germany looks to lead the way for other Western nations to follow.
Islamic banking is still a relatively under developed area with low market penetration rates. You see Islamic banks in strong markets like Malaysia and Saudi Arabia with market shares that are no higher than 12-14%. On the other hand, there is a lot of investor demand, especially when it comes to institutional investors, to find shariah compliant investment destinations.
The institutional investors have a very real need to diversify their Shariah compliant investments. The question now is whether governments in the Western countries can see that as an opportunity to bring investments into the country. If Germans and French can, others can too.
New German government fights Google from start
The new coalition, set up with Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the Free Democratic Party says “The Internet cannot be a copyright-free zone,” in a document describing its policies. If the policies are made actual publishers could be able to claim royalties for their content. Which would mean Google would have to pay them.The proposal is supported by publishers like Axel Springer and Hubert Burda Media. On the other hand German bloggers oppose. They believe this is only good for publishers and that it runs against the spirit of openness that characterizes the internet.
yeah right try to stop the Internet Angie!
Maybe the German Internet need some treatment as China (Google gonna filter copyrighted content).
I'm from Germany and I live in the Netherlands, surfing German sites is very strange because the "German" Internet has so many pages as other countries 5-10 years ago. Germany will have big problems in a few years if the run after the Internet facts (like they did for early computer technology)
