New rules on what companies can do with personal information include tighter consent requirements, a ‘right to be forgotten’, and a simple test for what’s OK.
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A new code for children’s online privacy is currently open for consultation. Here’s what it contains.
Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
The reasons have a lot to do with the nature of unions as representative of workers’ views, as well as the importance of protecting their right to bargain.
The Associated Press will no longer name those arrested in minor crimes when the news service is unlikely to cover the story’s resolution. That’s a major shift in US news culture.
At the end of the 1925 movie ‘Red Kimono,’ the protagonist, Gabrielle Darley, throws away her garment and moves on to a better life. Real life is more complicated.
Should every country have the right to impose its own laws governing the internet on the rest of the world? If so, the internet could become almost unrecognisable.
Blockchain data is unchangeable, which is a problem when privacy laws require companies to delete data once it’s served its purpose.
EU law needs to recognise that privacy and free expression are matters of colliding rights which can’t be wished away.
How hard is it to find out what information has been removed from search engine results? What about identifying who asked for it to be removed?
The ‘right to be forgotten’ won’t always help when someone posts something harmful about you – but there are other options.
The debate about the right to be forgotten might be characterised as a showdown: privacy and compassion versus information and freedom. But its solution need not be that simplistic.
Google and the media have done their bit to try and subvert the right to be forgotten, but an ICO ruling suggests its beginning to take notice.
After the European Court of Justice ruled that there was a “right to be forgotten” from Google’s search results, Google’s Advisory Council embarked on a roadshow aimed at debating the issue. While this…
When the “right to be forgotten” was established in the European Union, allowing people to have inaccurate and potentially harmful information removed from search engine results, there were concerns it…
The May 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice, dubbed the right to be forgotten, is seen as a precedent for all internet searches in all European Union member states. But the issues this ruling…
The current debate over the right to be forgotten, spurred by a European Union ruling that allows people to stop certain web pages from appearing in search results, is proof – if further proof was required…
As Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission, congratulates herself for forcing Google to comply with the right to be forgotten, she might want to take a moment to think about some issues…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a ruling that affects privacy and data protection for millions of people. But the ruling is also significant because of what it says about whether…
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, The University of Western Australia
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