Data Privacy: The European Union Is The Household

The new European directive on data protection invite the entire Net players to seek the consent of citizens to re-use of their personal information.

Published on 25 January at the initiative of the Vice President of the European Commission Viviane Reding, the new directive on data protection systematizes the prior consent of the citizen to re-use of personal information.

Thus, entities that interact with the citizens of the European Union to provide goods or services will be required to respond to any request to remove content that a person would consider compromising for him. A real right to forget digital so …

The implementation of digital right to forget was one of the pillars of this major overhaul announced last November.

Far from consensus among politicians, the concept had met with the reluctance of some ministers of member states. Such disagreements seem to persist to the point they would have earned numerous amendments to the project.

But the image of a revamped legislative base in its entirety, all now applies to all businesses based in or outside the European continent, regardless of the location of their headquarters and their servers.

Facebook, Google and others and will, without doubt, get approval from any Internet before claiming to use their personal data for purposes that are primarily advertising imagine … and maybe more.

A has for certain security requirements, where surveillance cameras pass through the cracks, as explained in the AFP .

Directed to potential offenders, heavy financial penalties, up to 1 million euros.

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