03/06/2014 World Business Report

The right to be forgotten ` EU regulators gather to figure out how

to outwork the controversial landmark ruling that censors the

web. The rising problem of piracy, so far

this year 72 ships have been attacked.

Welcome to World Business Report. I'm Sally Bundock. Also in the

programme we visit Computex, the huge computer show in Taipei which

opens today. But first. Representatives from the EU's 28

data protection authorities meet today to discuss the recent ruling

that European citizens have a so called "right to be forgotten" when

it comes to information about them online. Since the surprise verdict

by the European Court of Justice last month, Google has received

12,000 requests for action. But who should decide what stays and what is

deleted? Will each European country follow its own preferred path? The

regulators find themselves suddenly confronted with some pressing and

difficult problems. With me is Chris Green, IT Industry Analyst with

Davies Murphy Group. Good morning. Now, we say that they

have to grapple with this suddenly but in a way, we have been talking

about the issue of privacy and policing the world wide web for

quite sometime. What will be deleted, with their fellow they are

trying to come up with an underlying EU wide framework. They have a

problem at the moment where there is no cut and dried European privacy

policy `` they have to try and find some baseline level that will fit in

with the local climate of individual countries. That will also have

something viable for the light of Google and other people to apply

without it being a restriction of trade. It is typical because for the

likes of Google, it is the huge organisation, making lots of money.

It can afford to have what we are expect to be the announcement of a

big team of experts to advise them on privacy responsibilities. For

smaller companies, if this were to become EU wide, it could be

debilitating. It could be debilitating Indies. Let's be clear

on this that is progress would not be cheap for Google. They have had

over 12,000 request. They will have to be requested `` handled manually.

If you scaled down to smaller companies, start`ups and things like

that, the cost of applying this could be absolutely enormous. Do you

think we will end up with some sort of EU wide policy that will be

applied in all member states will countries are down their own roads?

I think it will be hard for a complete EU wide central policy that

will apply in a blanket fashion across the whole territory. More

likely what will have is some underlying, basic requirement is

that they can apply. And then each individual EU member State can apply

their own stuff on top. So there was to be variations but at least a

basic, based level that companies can work towards to ensure some

degree of compliance. Thanks for coming in early this morning. There

is a much more to discuss and it is on our website. Do take a look but

we have to move on. It's the first day of Computex `

Asia's biggest computer and technology show being held in

Taiwan. More than 130, 000 visitors are expected through the gates,

including tens of thousands of international buyers. With global

computer sales hitting an all time low last year, there's a lot of

pressure on firms to innovate. From Taipei, Cindy Sui looks at how

they're trying to recover lost ground.

With a futuristic tux, computer makers unveiled their latest

product. PC sales have declined sharply in the last two years and

computer makers have fought back by offering their own versions of

tablets on smartphones and two in wind that combine to devices into

one. They are trying to anticipate your every need. For this 3`D motion

sensor, it has just captured meat falling and sent a message to my

smartphone. There I am on the floor. The point of this technology is that

if I were to have an elderly parent and she has just fallen, I would be

instantly notified on my smartphone. This is one of an increasingly of

devices connected to Internet as part of a trend. Computer makers are

trying to catch on to this trend. By making product smarter. Like this

vacuum cleaner that you can command using your smartphone to clean up

your mess when you are out. All wearable medical devices that

measure your vital signs and store the information online so you can

share it with a later. All this camera that let's you see and record

what is going on at home. Industry leaders say there is much room for

growth as 85% of the devices people use today are not connected, they

expect by 2020, the number of products that are connected will

skyrocket to 50 billion. Your we expect many industries to be

revolutionised based on computing woven into the fabric of every

industry. A couple of them were really excited. The transit Asian

industry, healthcare. But not all computer makers are trying to

diversify. Dell is doing what it does best, making desktops and

laptops. With analysts editing PC sales will only declined by 1% this

year compared with 10% last year. They are still hoping. What

companies are hoping to do at Computex is not only when that

company `` customers but renew them. Foreign ever growing array of

high`tech products that are connected to the Internet. Whether

or not they will succeed remains to be seen.

Now when talking about piracy we nearly always think of illegal

downloading and copyright violations. But in fact, old style

piracy on the high seas is rising rapidly. The International Maritime

Bureau says there have been 72 reported piracy incidents so far

this year ` 60 were in Asia, mostly south east Asia. Rico Hizon is in

our Asia Business Hub in Singapore. Nice to see you. We were asked you

to do any impression of Captain Jack Sparrow on anything like that. What

is going on here? Over the last month, Sally, there were three

incidents where pirates successfully stole fuel. It was here in our

background in South East Asia. Pirate hijacked and Indonesia bound

tanker after stealing its entire cargo of oil. The International

Maritime Bureau pinpoints the Strait of Malacca as the most pirate

infested in the region. It is basically susceptible because it

contained thousands of small islands, making it ideal for pirate

important passageway between China important passageway between China

and India and the routes between Europe, with Canal, the Persian Gulf

and the East Asian ports. If this is not addressed sooner rather than

later, this could really pose a big problem and impact businesses here

in the region. Maritime security expert say that apart from wrapping

up patrols, governments have to observe the root cause. Overfishing,

weak maritime regulations, organised crime syndicates and widespread

poverty. It is a rising problem here in Asia, particularly in South East

Asia. Thank you very much indeed. In other news.

New data from China shows growth in the services sector zero which

includes construction and aviation ` rose to a six month high in May.

Services account for almost 43% of China's overall economy. The upbeat

news comes just days after Beijing reported that growth in the

manufacturing sector grew at the fastest pace in five months. The

figures will help allay fears of a slowdown in the economy.

Apple is moving into the growing digital health market with a new app

that will allow iPhone users to collect data about their health. Tim

Cook unveiled the technology and the firm 's new operating system at the

developers conference in San Francisco. It failed to excite

investors with shares falling slightly after the announcement.

While we are talking about shares, let's have a look at how things are

going in Asia. Yesterday we had China and Hong Kong closed. Today,

we are open for business. Japan is up I.8, Japan had a 2% gain

yesterday so is holding on and adding to those. China is one of the

reasons for the good sentiment. In the US, a mixed end to the day. I

will see you soon as we look through the papers.

New figures obtained by the BBC show university students made more than

20,000 complaints and appeals against universities last year. The

figures