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Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy
judgecorp writes "The European Commission has proposed a "right to be forgotten" online, which would allow users to remove personal data they had shared. The idea has had a lot of criticism, and now Facebook claims it would actually harm privacy. Facebook says the proposal would require social media sites to perform extra tracking to remove data which has been copied to other sites — but privacy advocates say Facebook has misunderstood what the proposal is all about."
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I think I'll take Facebook's views on privacy with a grain of salt.
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No, it would not.
Facebook would be responsible for what is posted on servers. Only. If someone copied the data to MySpace, that is a problem for MySpace, not Facebook.
I think you would quite well working for Facebook.
Think twice before you post ANYTHING online. Because once its there, its there forever. Use discretion.
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We're not talking about criminal records or warcrimes here.
We are talking about being tracked and datamined, for profit.
This is not a form of censorship.
Facebooks right to know everything about and and make money off it does not carry more weight than my right to be left alone and not be tracked and not be datamined.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
When someone else posts a photo of you in a compromising scenario and tags you in it.
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe
FB isn't supposed to allow linking to removed data. If someone copies data from FB to MySpace, then FB gets a request to remove said data, FB must also filter any links that could be referencing the copied versions on MySpace's site.
EU wants Google to do the same. If someone requests certain data removed, Google must also remove all references to any/all copies any user has made anywhere on the internet, otherwise get fined.