But airlines do not need to hand over permits accounting for their emissions until April 30 , 2013 and that could leave room for a compromise to be found over the next year.
The documents showed that OWS doesn't keep metadata on its users — all that the company could hand over was the account creation date and the last log-in time.
He handed over his account details to the Vodafone call handler.
Most importantly – and this is a key distinction – Glyph does not require that consumers hand over their credit card account information in order to use the service.
UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, avoided prosecution in 2009 by paying $780 million, by admitting to criminal charges that it helped wealthy Americans evade federal income taxes from 2000 to 2007 and by handing over account data on about 265 Americans.
It now has an ongoing investigation into 11 more Swiss financial firms and is discussing a settlement that could result in Swiss private banks handing over account data on thousands of US residents.
In the United States, in the first half of 2012, for instance, the government made 7,969 requests to Google to hand over information on 16,281 accounts.
Switzerland, home to accounts with more than $2 trillion in overseas deposits, has been locked in thorny negotiations with Washington since 2009, when UBS, the largest Swiss bank, agreed to pay a $780 million fine and to hand over information on 4,450 accounts to resolve accusations that it had helped wealthy American clients avoid taxes.
The haul, dating from 2005 to 2007, includes hundreds of embarrassing documents, from internal e-mails breezily discussing undeclared client funds to details of "bricks" of cash being handed over to account-holders.
