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Datacell, which serves as a mediator for WikiLeaks in Iceland, sued Valitor over the transaction ban Visa and Mastercard placed on payments to the website in December 2010. The case opened in Reykjavík District Court on Thursday.
Reykjavík District Court.
“The next step is that credit card companies will bar people from buying milk and diapers,” commented Ólafur Sigurvinsson, former operating manager of Datacell, as stated on visir.is.
“It has significant meaning for us but also for credit card holders,” he said of the case. “It is not just about us and WikiLeaks but about whether credit card companies should decide on what people can spend their money.”
Datacell’s case is one of many WikiLeaks has been preparing against credit card companies around the world and Ólafur is certain that they will win. “I expect that the verdict of Reykjavík District Court will set a good example.”
In December 2010 all of the world’s main credit card companies, Visa, Mastercard, Bank of America, Western Union and Paypal, decided to close off all payment channels to WikiLeaks after it leaked extensive information from US embassies around the world.
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Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson attended an annual consultative meeting last weekend with colleagues from the Nordic and several African countries, as announced in a press release from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs.
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From many salmon rivers anglers are reporting great opening days. Reykjavík Citizen of the year caught the first salmn in Ellidaár in Reykjavík this morning.
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The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury including one for Icelandic littereture Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness.
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A petition urging the government to reconsider a proposed bill, in which the terms of the law requiring fishing companies to pay a tariff for their use of Iceland’s fishing resources are to be changed, has been signed by more than 11,000 people.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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