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Fitness tracking startups worried over European privacy regulators

Bloomberg Startups hoping to sell health tracking devices and software to corporate customers are worried European regulators will torpedo their business model. Employers should be banned from issuing workers with wearable fitness monitors, such as Fitbit, or other health tracking devices, even with the employees’ permission, a European Union advisory panel said in June. Employers should also be barred from ...

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US ‘waters down’ North Korea sanctions draft before vote

Bloomberg The US has watered down a proposal to punish North Korea for its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, omitting an oil embargo and a freeze of Kim Jong Un’s assets, according to a European diplomat. While the US, UK and France are united on the latest proposal, it’s unclear whether Russia and China — the other veto-holding members ...

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Trump, Netanyahu to meet next week in NY

JERUSALEM / Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would meet US President Donald Trump later this month during a visit to New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly on September 19. Netanyahu spoke to reporters accompanying him on a trip to Latin America before his plane left Tel Aviv for Argentina on Sunday night. ...

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