Chief among the new proposals is a “right to be forgotten” that will allow people to demand that organizations that hold their data delete that data, as long as there is no legitimate grounds to hold it.
Citizens will also have to give their explicit permission before companies can process their data; assumptions of permission won’t be permitted, and systems will have to be private by default.
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Europe proposes a “right to be forgotten” This should be the automatic de facto answer. If it weren’t for outside influence, we wouldn’t even be debating this. But why doesn’t this precedent already exist for snail mail? Did the previous generation not care? I don’t have the patience to look at my mail / mailbox, other than the bright red envelope. If it weren’t for my wife, my mail wouldn’t get opened. |
