[governance] Revisions to EU data protection laws should not give individuals a right to be forgotten

[Narine Khachatryan]

UK data protection watchdog: 'Unenforceable' right to be forgotten should
not be included in new EU data laws

Revisions to EU data protection laws should not give individuals a general
'right to be forgotten', the Information Commissioner's Office has said on 17
Nov. 2011

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/


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
briefing<http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/library/Data_Protection/Research_and_reports/ico_stakeholder_briefing_-_the_future_of_dp_in_the_eu.ashx>
 on what it would like revised EU data protection laws to provide for. "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. "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.


The full article:

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/

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Nariné Khachatryan
Media Education Center
Yerevan, Armenia
http://www.immasin.am  <http://www.immasin.am>
http://www.safe.am/
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