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Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy

Posted by timothy on from the want-to-subscribe-to-your-newsletter dept.

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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  1. In other news... by sconeu · · Score: 5, Informative

    War is Peace
    Freedom is Slavery

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  2. Facebook on Privacy by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think I'll take Facebook's views on privacy with a grain of salt.

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    It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
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  3. Upton Sinclair by fldsofglry · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! -- Upton Sinclair http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair

  4. Re:Privacy has nothing to do with it by dywolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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