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27 January 2012
For
the first time people living within the European Union will have what's
being called "the right to be forgotten". Under changes announced by
the European Commission, people will be able to tell a company to remove
all the online data they have about them.Reporter: Zoe Conway
What information should stay on websites?
Read the text and try to put the words back into it:
blogs build trust deleted
guiding principle
hacked into mysterious investigated privacy reputations unflattering
hacked into mysterious investigated privacy reputations unflattering
Listen to the report
Just
how much control should people have over their online (1) ____________? Should
they be able to demand that an (2) ____________photo be permanently (3) ____________from
a website like Facebook? Does everything people write online have to stay
there? What about bank details, addresses - can websites hold onto this
information forever?
These were the kinds of questions being asked by the European Commission as it (4) ____________ the issue of internet (5) ____________. Its (6) ____________throughout has been what it called "the right to be forgotten". It has now decided on what this (7) _____________ sounding phrase actually means.
It means that a person does have the right to demand their personal information be permanently deleted if it is data that they themselves have put online. But they don't have the right to have things like unflattering (8) ____________or newspaper profiles written by others deleted.
The EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said the changes will help (9) ____________in online services.
The Commission also says that businesses should have to tell their customers within 24 hours if their online accounts have been (10) ____________.
Some internet companies have reacted with concern to the proposals, warning that they could become bogged down in trying to meet the new requirements and that could affect their ability to grow.
These were the kinds of questions being asked by the European Commission as it (4) ____________ the issue of internet (5) ____________. Its (6) ____________throughout has been what it called "the right to be forgotten". It has now decided on what this (7) _____________ sounding phrase actually means.
It means that a person does have the right to demand their personal information be permanently deleted if it is data that they themselves have put online. But they don't have the right to have things like unflattering (8) ____________or newspaper profiles written by others deleted.
The EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said the changes will help (9) ____________in online services.
The Commission also says that businesses should have to tell their customers within 24 hours if their online accounts have been (10) ____________.
Some internet companies have reacted with concern to the proposals, warning that they could become bogged down in trying to meet the new requirements and that could affect their ability to grow.
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