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The European Commission is proposing changes to data protection rules. This will include the right to be a forgotten, were individuals can request certain data be deleted.
With the popularity of social networking, individuals are sharing more and more about themselves online. The changes are designed to protect those who have shared information which could be potentially damaging to their reputation.
This is in particular consideration of teenagers who may have misjudged the appropriateness of some of the information they have shared on the internet.
Data protection is becoming even more critical, with user generated content and the trend to share our lives with others on the giant network that is the internet. Regulating who sees what we share and how they use it is nearly impossible.
Faced with this prospect, many people are now deserting social networking sites, or curtailing what they choose to share. This poses a threat to the popularity of user generated content sites and social networks, which is bolstered by the recent proposals for copyright laws to be tightened.
The deleting of blocks data could seem like crude way of dealing with the issue, in that data content is rarely black and white. But it is taking steps to address the issue and could protect those younger members of the online community, who may have not have fully considered the consequences of their actions.
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