Europe wants more control over personal information on the web

Today, Council of Europe Commissioner for Information Society and Media Vivien Reding made an official statement in which she called attention to the problem of loss of control over personal information on the Web. In other words, information about yourself is gradually “spreading” over the web, and sometimes you do not know where your data can be “lit up.” It is clear that many people want to keep their own information under control - for example, sometimes the user wants to delete all of their information from the Web, but it’s impossible, it has already spread so much that they don’t collect it.

So, Vivienne Reding believes that the lack of such a possibility is an important issue that violates the law on the protection of personal information, which was adopted in 1995. This happened long before the social networks appeared, but the law did not lose its relevance, rather, on the contrary.
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“The protection of personal data is a fundamental law. To protect our rights, we must develop transparent and reliable laws to protect personal data. We also need to update our laws in order to bring them into conformity with reality, ”Vivien Reding comments on the situation.

For example, she considers it necessary to develop a tool that allows to erase from the Network any mention of the personality of a person who wishes to become less “visible”. It is clear that not all information can be erased in this way, but at least the initial steps need to be done, the commissioner said. According to Rending, people should be able to control personal information, and should have the right to be “forgotten” when it comes to the Web.

Now private information that can be found on social networks or through a search service greatly affects the lives and work of many people. Sometimes information that is carelessly entered into the Network can lead to dismissal or divorce. Now the European Commission launched the process of discussing this problem, having decided to create at least a draft draft resolution of the issue by 2011.

European lawmakers want to minimize the collection and use of personal user data. “We must be informed about where, how, by whom, how and for how long our personal information will be used,” the commissioner’s text says.

Personally, I have long thought about such problems - the information is really “spreading out”, and it’s even hard not to remove all this, it’s hard to even understand what goes where, where personal information is stored. It would be nice if the Europeans could at least get closer to the solution of this issue. Good luck to them?

Via yahoo