Britons to gain online 'right to be forgotten'
The European Commission has given details of a far-reaching strategy to strengthen data protection laws.
Citizens should have the 'right to be forgotten', the Commission said in a statement last week. Justice spokesman Matthew Newman told ZDNet Asia's sister site, ZDNet UK, last week that data entered on social-networking sites is currently too difficult to delete.
"At the moment the process [of data deletion] is rather cumbersome, and it's not clear that it has all been deleted," said Newman. "If you decide you don't want to have data on a site, you should be able to withdraw consent and have the data deleted." According to the Commission's statement, people should be able to give informed consent about how their data is collected and processed, for example when surfing online.
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