EU to enshrine “right to be forgotten”
17 Mar 2011The EU has announced its intention to ensure that social networking sites such as Facebook routinely offer high standards of privacy. They will recognise the existence of a “right to be forgotten online”. EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has said that she wants to “explicitly clarify that people shall have the right – and not only the possibility — to withdraw their consent to data processing.”
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