upholding the Marin ordinance

the NSA and the UK's GCHQ, has been used to infiltrate Google and Yahoo data centers across the world, according to documents revealed by Edward Snowden and confirmed by sources at The Washington Post. It's a breach of privacy that could affect hundreds of millions of users hermes bearn, l ban-the-bag measures Wednesday when the state Supreme Court allowed Marin County to continue enforcing its restrictions at checkout counters in unincorporated areas.High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additi r research company, US sales of men’s bags rose 3 per cent last year to almost $1bn as menswear sales as a whole edged up just 1 per cent. “My father had a briefcase – most men had papers that they needed to carry everywhere,”

 says Mats Klingberg, owner of menswear retailer Trunk Clothiers and a bag enthusiast himself (he has 30). “Then, information became digital and all a man needed was his wallet and his phone. But gradually the office itself has become mobile and people are carrying iPads, laptops, a work phone and a personal one. All this will no longer fit in your jacket – you need a bag.” Hence Mulberry’s decision to invest in its men’s pieces over the past two years, with an exclusive line at Selfridges and a men’s product offering that is 50 per cent larger than last year’s. At Dunhill, Bourdon hermes kelly walletdocument cases and zip briefcases (£825) have been best-sellers, while other brands to respond to the trend include Burberry, with its small cross-body bag, and Coach, whose sling bag was conceive The justices unanimously

 denied review of an appellate ruling upholding the Marin ordinance, which since January 2012 has prohibited single-use plastic bags and required a 5-cent fee for a paper bag. Similar measures have been adopted by about 50 cities and counties in California, including San Francisco and Alameda County. The ordinances are aimed at reducing waste and water pollution from python birkin bagdiscarded plastic bags. Makers of the bags argue that the bans cause more environmental problems than they solve because paper bags take more energy to produce, leadi one that neither company was apparently privy to, in spite of the NSA's history of court-ordered data access with both. Google told The Post that it's, "troubled by allegations of the government intercepting traffic between our data centers, and [is] not aware of this activity." Yahoo echoed the sentiment, stating that it has, "strict controls in place to protect the security of our data centers, and [has] not given access to [its] data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency." The government, naturally, isn't