November 9, 2011
Stephanie Funk
There is currently a discussion taking place in the European Commission about adding sanctions regarding Internet privacy to Europe's Data Protection Directive. Viviane Reding, the European justice commissioner, believes we should restrict the amount of personal information that business can obtain from social networking sites such as Facebook and search engines such as Google. Furthermore, Reding wishes to include an addendum about “the right to be forgotten” that would allow individuals to permanently delete information.
One of the difficulties in enacting these changes is the issue of jurisdiction. There is little precedent for internet privacy laws because it is a borderless entity. Some legal experts are unsure about how the European Commission will enforce their privacy laws on U.S. based companies. Others believe that these privacy restrictions will lead to monitoring of the Internet and limit the free flow of information.
Do you think that these sanctions promoted by Mrs. Reding will protect our privacy by allowing us to permanently delete information about ourselves, or that the proposed addenda will infringe on the right to freely share and access information?
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