New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 7, 2017 at 11:35:33 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts
>
>
> New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts
>
> https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/07/uk-data-protection-bill/
>
>      The UK's Data Protection Act began looking long in the tooth
>    some time ago. It was introduced in 1998 when the internet was
>    a very different place, after all, and today the government
>    has published more details on the upcoming Data Protection
>    Bill, which will update laws to ensure they're fit for the
>    hyper-connected era. Delivering on a Conservative Party
>    manifesto pledge, the bill will introduce a new right for
>    people to instruct social networks to delete anything they
>    posted before the age of 18.  This has been called the "right
>    to innocence," and will mean you can more easily purge social
>    media activity that's embarrassing or no longer reflects you
>    as an adult. The power is part of a bigger expansion of
>    existing "right to be forgotten" laws.  Currently, you can
>    only request that personal information be deleted -- removed
>    from Google search results, for example -- if it causes
>    significant distress, such as details of a petty crime you
>    committed as a kid that are still following you decades later.
>
> - - -
>
> Mostly a pile of typical EU rot. If they're public postings, they're
> public. Get used to it. You can try delete them, but mirrors are
> everywhere even beyond the reach of the censorship-loving EU with
> their "Right To Be Forgotten" garbage, and there will be more -- many
> more. Trying to delete old postings will in fact be the best way to
> draw attention to them. Welcome to the 21st century, boys and girls.
> Keep in mind, it's the brilliant bureaucrats of the EU who came up
> with utterly useless "This site uses cookies do you understand, huh,
> really, do you, we think you're a moron so we'll keep asking" banners.
> And remember, they're trying to impose their vast censorship and data
> control regimes GLOBALLY.
>
> --Lauren--



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