The European Commission Wednesday spelled out some of its proposed privacy rights for citizens sharing personal data on the Internet, saying there should be a strict "right to be forgotten" that would allow users to tell websites to permanently delete data.
In a speech in Brussels, Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said the first pillar of the European Union's proposition would be "a comprehensive set of existing and new rules to better cope with privacy risks online."
"When modernizing the legislation, I want to explicitly clarify that people shall have the right—and not only the 'possibility'—to withdraw their consent to data processing," Ms. Reding said.
She said the "burden of proof" should be on data controllers who process data. "They must prove that they need to keep the data rather than individuals having to prove that collecting their data is not necessary," she added.
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Source: online.wsj.com
By: Laurence Norman
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