[governance] Is this for real?

[Roland Perry]

at 08:29:12 on Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Deirdre Williams 
<williams.deirdre at gmail.com> writes
> But all this is technology and it will improve....
>
>For better, or for [much] worse

It should make it better, because the law's catching up fast and service 
providers need to show they are complying.

For example, the current need for websites in EU to ask for "proper 
permission" to install cookies. Not that it's happening much, but it's a 
work in progress.

Similarly, more recent EU proposals for a "right to be forgotten" and 
the formal removal of ambiguity over whether things like IP and email 
addresses are 'personal data' [they are] will mean more attention will 
be focussed on the consumer/citizen's rights.

And perhaps I'm unusual in thinking that Facebook's Timeline is a good 
thing, because it shows the data subjects (as well as the rest of the 
world) a much more comprehensive view of the information they've 
revealed - and a better tool to edit/censor what other subscribers can 
see (even if there's sometimes some doubt about whether it gets 
completely deleted at the Facebook end).
-- 
Roland Perry

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