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Governments of the EU countries agreed on uniform norms of personal data protection on the Internet, including pan -European right to oblivion
The Ministers of Justice of all 28 EU countries on the eve agreed on a bill on a new protection of personal data on the Internet and processing these data by commercial enterprises. The bill, which will now go for discussion in the European Parliament, will be built into the right to oblivion and the right of citizens to control how Internet companies use information about user preferences, Kommersant reports.
The European Commission plans to complete the approval by the end of the year.
One of the main innovations of the Unified European Legislation is the norm built into it on the right to oblivion - the right of users to demand from Internet companies to remove outdated or inaccurate information about them from the Internet. Currently, Europeans can enjoy the right to forget on the basis of several court decisions taken for the precedent.
One of the most high -profiles is the decision of the European Court of May 13, 2014, the so -called Costaha case . Then the court ruled that the Spanish division of Google should delete from the Internet information about the sale in 1998 from the auction of the House of the Spanish Citizen Mario Kosteha Gonzalez to pay debt - by that time the debt was paid a long time ago, so the Spanish citizen and demanded to remove this information by reaching the European Court. Now the European Commission has developed a single standard, according to which the EU citizen may demand from Internet companies to remove incorrect or outdated information about himself, taking advantage of the right to oblivion.
Another important point in the new bill is the right of EU citizens to demand and receive information from companies about how they use his personal data and the so -called user profile - an automatic list of user preferences, compiled on the basis of searching for information on the Internet, viewed sites, etc.
In addition, the new bill provides for the obligation of the Internet company to inform local state bodies about unauthorized hacking of user data, hacker attacks, etc. Within 24 hours - thus, users will quickly receive such information.
According to the European Commission, "the main goal is to provide citizens with more rights and ability to control their personal data. At the same time, the new laws will help the business of all the advantages of a single digital market, which will reduce costs."