[x-pubpol] On Its Own, Europe Backs Web Privacy Fights

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/world/europe/10spain.html

Spain...  ... has ordered Google to stop indexing information about 90
> citizens who filed formal complaints with its Data Protection Agency. The
> case is now in court and being watched closely across Europe for how it
> might affect the control citizens will have over information they posted, or
> which was posted about them, on the Web.
>


> Whatever the ruling in the Spanish case, the European Union is also
> expected to weigh in with new “right to be forgotten” regulations this fall.
> Viviane Reding, the European Union’s justice commissioner, has offered few
> details of what she has in mind. But she has made clear she is determined to
> give privacy watchdogs greater power.
>


> “I cannot accept that individuals have no say over their data once it has
> been launched into cyberspace,” she said last month. She said she had heard
> the argument that more control was impossible, and that Europeans should
> “get over it.”
>


> But, Ms. Reding said, “I don’t agree.”--


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