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<span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 35, 38); line-height: 24px; ">UK data protection watchdog: </span>'Unenforceable' right to be
forgotten should not be included in new EU data laws<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"></font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(30, 35, 38); ">Revisions to EU data protection laws should not
give individuals a general 'right to be forgotten', the Information
Commissioner's Office has said on </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(79, 79, 79); ">17 Nov. 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/november/unenforceable-right-to-be-forgotten-should-not-be-included-in-new-eu-data-laws-ico-says/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/november/unenforceable-right-to-be-forgotten-should-not-be-included-in-new-eu-data-laws-ico-says/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(30, 35, 38); "></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(30, 35, 38); "><br>
</span></font></p><p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(30, 35, 38); ">Giving individuals the right to force organisations to
delete the personal information they store them about would be misleading,
unenforceable and have "implications" for free speech, the UK's data
protection watchdog said. "The framework should strengthen individual
rights to object to and block processing, and to have their data deleted, and
reverse the burden of proof so the organisation has to provide compelling
legitimate grounds for continuing processing," the ICO said in a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(30, 35, 38); "><a href="http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Data_Protection/Research_and_reports/ico_stakeholder_briefing_-_the_future_of_dp_in_the_eu.ashx"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#055D93;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">briefing</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(30, 35, 38); "> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(30, 35, 38); ">on what it would like revised EU
data protection laws to provide for. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 35, 38); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">"It should not introduce a
stand-alone ‘right to be forgotten’ which could mislead individuals and falsely
raise their expectations, and be impossible to implement and enforce in
practice. There are implications for freedom of expression and questions as to
how far individuals should be able rewrite their own or others’ history,"
the ICO said.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 35, 38); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 35, 38); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">"It
should be a single, overarching framework applying to all the processing of
personal data carried out in the EU, complemented with a set of more specific
rules dealing with particular areas, for example, electronic communications or
law enforcement," it said.</span></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The
full article:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/november/unenforceable-right-to-be-forgotten-should-not-be-included-in-new-eu-data-laws-ico-says/"><span lang="EN-US"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/november/unenforceable-right-to-be-forgotten-should-not-be-included-in-new-eu-data-laws-ico-says/</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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