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1. Iceland Court Orders Valitor to Process WikiLeaks Donations

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:06 PM

Jul 2012

By Omar R. Valdimarsson on July 12, 2012

Reykjavik’s District Court ordered Valitor hf, the Icelandic partner of MasterCard Inc. (MA) and Visa Inc. (V), to open card payments to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks within two weeks or face daily penalties of 800,000 kronur ($6,200), the court said today. Valitor was sued by Icelandic data hosting service provider DataCell, after the payment card company refused to process payments to WikiLeaks the same day it signed a contract with DataCell ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-12/iceland-court-orders-valitor-to-process-wikileaks-donations

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