Personal Data Protection in the Information Age

Confidentiality of private information on the Internet is a serious question. In the European Union intend to modernize the legislation for the protection of secrecy of personal data. The first European Commission intends to monitor the activity of social networks.

European Commissioner Viviane Reding in a speech about the need for reform mentioned on the right "to be forgotten. " She also spoke negatively about Facebook, which use automatic settings, without warning participants to judge granted access to all their personal information.

Reading intends to seek a law to oblige sites to establish data privacy by default, which means you will be protected, and initially only at the personal request will open the information about yourself. Settings' privacy by default "suggest a ban transmit this information to the applications available in the networks of social character. EU commissioner proposes new laws also extend to all resources in the EU. In this context, may be affected and some services are Google.

If the legislators of Europe will support Viviane Reding, the EU's citizens will be able to request removal from the archives of his site with photos and other data, even if before they gave the nod to their location.