November 11, 2010

The right to be forgotten on Internet


Source IDG.se
5 October 2010


EU is preparing a law that will enable users to erase information stored on them on the Internet.

The new law will allow European citizens to delete all information held about them on various sites, such as social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Today, it is not always clear all information stored on different sites because of technical limitations. EU wants to put pressure on sites that users can choose whether the information is saved or deleted, reports the BBC.

Pressrelease: European Commission sets out strategy to strengthen EU data protection rules>




I think this a great proposal but they seems to have forgotten the fact that much of the data at for example Twitter is copied to third party. It is not only about deleting the user profile and the content at the main source. Can Twitter force third party to delete that information? Can Twitter and Facebook force Google to delete cached information quicker than the now esteemed time of six months?

Read my reflections about Twitter, third party, Google and integrity at:
Did you know your tweets might be audited and cut out of stone?>


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