"The only barrier to entry is to buy an Apple Mac, which are about the same price as any other comparable piece of hardware from a PC manufacturer (not a whole seller mind you, but a manufacturer)." BULLSHIT. Comparable hardware to Apple's in a desktop or a laptop will cost you around 40% less anywhere in the world. Apple have managed to pull the wool over so many peoples eye's by just adding the "premium" tag to the same hardware. Oh and being patronising bastards

So like the TFA says, for once the British aren't going to be screwed over by having to pay Yank prices in Sterling. At a time before the recession hit and the exchange rate was sitting nicely at US$2 for 1GBP this was sadly never translated into the Interenets SUper-Combobulating-Exchange-Calculator that all multi-nationals selling software or hardware in the UK and US seemed to use that seemed to be closer to a US$1 to GBP1 mapping. iTunes store and most Apple products being notable offenders. I for one am sick of being shafted for my lunch money by greedy companies.

Rather than dupe post this is exactly what I was going to mention. The "World" privacy council of what world? The United States of America? Every single item on that list from TFA is a US based opt-out scheme. When will the American's learn that the US != the world. World series, world privacy, world police...