Organisations that want to process personal data will have to obtain explicit prior consent from individuals to do so under new EU data protection laws, the EU Justice Commissioner has said.
for full text see here
It also talks about the right for the individuals to remove data, they posted, from the Internet..
Without some exceptions and caveats, this sounds rather problematic to me.
ReplyDeleteDo they really envisage a website having to ask permission before planting a cookie? How disruptive would that be, until we have consent mechanisms built into http, for example?
If I subscribe to a service, do I need to also click to say that I want my data processing - is it not sufficient that I want the service? Or should this relate solely to secondary processing?
Finally, I have real concerns about the proposal that "consumers generally should have the right to delete their data at any time, especially the data they post on the Internet themselves." What about archives, and historical record? If a user can demand that anything which constitutes personal data is removed, what about knowledge built up online - forum posts and the like? Newspapers? Historic email archives?
Some good intentions, but, without some safeguards, these would strike me as going too far.
Hi Neil,
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly how I thought about it as well, the technology and when and how to make it available and how to control all this.. and what happens to the data already posted on the internet.. and where are they? And so on…
in theory looks good ... but to bring it into practice and implement is just not feasible!
Some concerns against this..
ReplyDeleteExpert says 'right to be forgotten' could cause problems for publishers
Full text:
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/november/expert-says-right-to-be-forgotten-could-cause-problems-for-publishers/