Frank Jordans

October 19, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Insurers have begun to make the link between fossil fuel infrastructure, such as mines and pipelines, and the impact that greenhouse gas emissions are having on other parts of their business.

By Frank Jordans

4 minute read

October 03, 2011 | Law.com

The U.N. human rights office on Friday questioned the fairness of a Bahrain court that sentenced an anti-government protester to death and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical staff who treated the injured during the country's uprising.

By Frank Jordans

3 minute read

September 09, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The U.S. National Security Agency is able to crack protective measures on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, giving it access to users' data on all major smartphones, according to a report Sunday in German news weekly Der Spiegel.

By Frank Jordans

3 minute read

June 25, 2007 | Law.com

Talks on an international treaty updating broadcast rights to accommodate the Internet failed Friday because countries were unable to agree how much legal and technological protection to afford broadcasters, a U.S. official said.

By Frank Jordans

2 minute read

May 13, 2008 | Law.com

Candidates for the top post at the U.N. patent agency arrived in Geneva on May 13 to make their case for the job. Diplomats and patent experts from 14 countries are in the race to head the troubled World Intellectual Property Organization after the resignation of its current director-general over questions about his integrity.

By Frank Jordans

2 minute read

May 13, 2008 | Law.com

Candidates for the top post at the U.N. patent agency arrived in Geneva on Tuesday to make their case for the job. Diplomats and patent experts from 14 countries are in the race to head the troubled World Intellectual Property Organization after the resignation of its current director-general over questions about his integrity. Kamil Idris agreed to step down a year before the end of his second term after Western governments demanded his resignation and blocked talks on the agency's future funding.

By Frank Jordans

2 minute read

March 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By FRANK JORDANS

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January 20, 2011 | Law.com

Minutes before being found guilty of breaking Switzerland's strict secrecy laws, a banker who claims to have provided WikiLeaks with details on wealthy tax cheats acknowledged having made mistakes in his efforts to expose offshore tax evasion.

By Frank Jordans

4 minute read

March 25, 2010 | Law.com

Swiss and German data protection commissioners are demanding that Facebook explain its practice of allowing users to upload e-mail addresses, photographs and other personal details about people who haven't signed up to the site. The probes go to the heart of a debate that has gained momentum in Europe amid high-profile privacy cases: To what extent are social networking platforms responsible for the content their members upload?

By Frank Jordans

5 minute read

July 12, 2010 | Law.com

The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man today after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski's sentencing procedure in 1977-1978. The Justice Ministry also said that national interests were taken into consideration. The stunning decision could end the United States' three-decade pursuit of Polanski.

By Bradley S. Klapper and Frank Jordans

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