In the European Union will be a single law on the protection of personal data
Yesterday, June 15, the Ministers of Justice of 28 EU countries completed the development of a new draft law on the protection of personal data. This project is designed to supplement and unify the relevant laws of EU countries. Its development was begun in 2012.
“The main goal is to provide citizens with more rights and opportunities to control their personal data. At the same time, new laws will help businesses take full advantage of the unified digital market, which will reduce costs, ”the European Commission notes.
Under a single law, it is proposed to grant citizens the “right to oblivion.” Its essence is to allow users to request removal of links to inaccurate, outdated, or “illegal" information about them. Formerly, Europeans had to collect several court decisions to exercise this right in exceptional situations.
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An indicative case occurred in May last year, when a European court ordered Google search engine to remove information about the sale of plaintiff Mario Gonzalez’s house for debts. The plaintiff insisted that this information was already irrelevant, since it was still in 1998.
The bill also provides for the right of an EU citizen to receive information about the method of using his personal data, as well as the “user profile”. This is data about user preferences, generated on the basis of the history of visits to web pages and input requests.
Another innovation requires Internet companies to inform local government agencies about unauthorized hacking of user data, cyber attacks and other similar incidents within 24 hours.
Representatives of the European Commission believe that these measures will allow businesses to save 2.3 billion euros per year. After all, with the advent of a single law, the need for lawyers specializing in the laws of individual EU countries will disappear, Kommersant reports . The further fate of the bill will be decided in the European Parliament.
Megamind wrote that a similar project is being discussed in Russia. However, a number of Internet companies strongly criticized the Russian version of the “right to oblivion”.
“The main goal is to provide citizens with more rights and opportunities to control their personal data. At the same time, new laws will help businesses take full advantage of the unified digital market, which will reduce costs, ”the European Commission notes.
Under a single law, it is proposed to grant citizens the “right to oblivion.” Its essence is to allow users to request removal of links to inaccurate, outdated, or “illegal" information about them. Formerly, Europeans had to collect several court decisions to exercise this right in exceptional situations.
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An indicative case occurred in May last year, when a European court ordered Google search engine to remove information about the sale of plaintiff Mario Gonzalez’s house for debts. The plaintiff insisted that this information was already irrelevant, since it was still in 1998.
The bill also provides for the right of an EU citizen to receive information about the method of using his personal data, as well as the “user profile”. This is data about user preferences, generated on the basis of the history of visits to web pages and input requests.
Another innovation requires Internet companies to inform local government agencies about unauthorized hacking of user data, cyber attacks and other similar incidents within 24 hours.
Representatives of the European Commission believe that these measures will allow businesses to save 2.3 billion euros per year. After all, with the advent of a single law, the need for lawyers specializing in the laws of individual EU countries will disappear, Kommersant reports . The further fate of the bill will be decided in the European Parliament.
Megamind wrote that a similar project is being discussed in Russia. However, a number of Internet companies strongly criticized the Russian version of the “right to oblivion”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/291608/
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